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The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their subjects-unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group d
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613287335
- 1-283-28733-1
- 1-61039-045-8
- 9781613090453
- OCLC:
- 755169520
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