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The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
Van Pelt Library JC330.3 .B84 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership--Philosophy.
- Political leadership.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Political corruption.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: rules to rule by
- The rules of politics
- Coming to power
- Staying in power
- Steal from the poor, give to the rich
- Getting and spending
- If corruption empowers, then absolute corruption empowers absolutely
- Foreign aid
- The people in revolt
- War, peace, and world order
- What is to be done?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610390446
- 161039044X
- 9781610390453
- 1610390458
- OCLC:
- 701015473
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