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DO IDIOTS RULE THE WORLD?: How systems produce bad leaders — and what has to break first - Couverture souple

Pańko, Marek Jan

 
9788398292924: DO IDIOTS RULE THE WORLD?: How systems produce bad leaders — and what has to break first
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ISBN 10 : 839829292X ISBN 13 : 9788398292924
Editeur : Marek Jan Pańko, 2026

Synopsis

IS THE PROBLEM THAT IDIOTS RULE — OR THE SYSTEM THAT PRODUCES THEM?

On election night, November 8, 2016, the world froze. Then came Brexit, Hungary, Brazil, Poland. Each time the same disbelief: "something is wrong here — but what?"

The author offers a thesis that changes the entire conversation: bad leaders are not produced by bad people. They are produced by specific conditions — and once those conditions exist, the system begins to select exactly this kind of leader, as if it had been designed to.

This book does not judge — it explains the mechanism. It shows how the collapse of shared reality, disinformation, and social-media algorithms prepare the ground for populism, and how the machinery of power operates the moment institutions lose their trust.

It is a study of the crisis of democracy written from a witness's perspective — by someone who watched a political system transform up close, not just read about it in textbooks.

Inside, you will discover:

  • why the same pattern recurs from ancient Athens to Weimar Germany, Rwanda, and today's Poland and Hungary

  • how the disintegration of facts and disinformation open the door to populism

  • the role algorithms play in eroding our shared reality

  • why populist voters are not stupid — but rational in a world that has stopped making sense

  • how the mechanisms of power really work once courts, media, and parliaments weaken

  • what can actually be done to strengthen a fragile democracy

For readers drawn to politics, history, and the nature of power — and for anyone who wants to understand the crisis of democracy more deeply than the daily headlines allow.

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Éditeur
Marek Jan Pańko
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
839829292X
ISBN 13 
9788398292924
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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