The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
ISBN: 9781610391849 | 1610391845
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 7/31/2012
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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 th... MORE
| Introduction: Rules to Rule By | p. ix |
| The Rules of Politics | p. 1 |
| Coming to Power | p. 21 |
| Staying in Power | p. 49 |
| Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich | p. 75 |
| Getting and Spending | p. 101 |
| If Corruption Empowers, Then Absolute Corruption Empowers Absolutely | p. 127 |
| Foreign Aid | p. 161 |
| The People in Revolt | p. 195 |
| War, P... MORE | p. 225 |
| What Is To Be Done? | p. 251 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 283 |
| Notes | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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