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The Dictator's Handbook

Paperback • 2012 • English

The Dictator's Handbook

By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 i...Show more

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ISBN

9781610391849

Publisher

PublicAffairs,U.S.

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

The Dictator's Handbook

Format

Paperback

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