The dictator's handbook why bad behavior is almost always good politics
- New York Public Affairs 2011
- xxv, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-299) and index.
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.