The Dictator's Handbook View Online By Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
| Title | : | The Dictator's Handbook |
| Author | : | Bruce Bueno De Mesquita |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 352 pages |
| ISBN | : | 161039044X |
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 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 determines almost everything about politics what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them The picture the authors paint is not pretty But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance
about Author
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory.He has founded a company, Mesquita Roundell, that specializes in making political and foreign policy forecasts using a computer m Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory.He has founded a company, Mesquita Roundell, that specializes in making political and foreign policy forecasts using a computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory He is also the director of New York University s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy.He was featured as the primary subject in the documentary on the History Channel in December 2008 The show, titled Next Nostradamus, details how the scientist is using computer algorithms to predict future world events Excerpted from Wikipedia. 
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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
352 pagesBruce Bueno De Mesquita
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