The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, (electronic resource)

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The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, (electronic resource)

Title remainder

why bad behavior is almost always good politics

Medium

electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

Instantiates

• The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics

Publication

• New York, PublicAffairs, 2011

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Color

multicolored

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?

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ebr10494977

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unknown

Edition

1st ed

Extent

xxv, 319 p.

Form of item

electronic

Other physical details

ill., ports

Record ID

.b34868689

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction.

Specific material designation

remote

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(OCoLC)755169520