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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.


As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times.


Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their subject...

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Current Affairs & PoliticsPolitical Theory & IdeologyGeneral & Miscellaneous Political TheoryDictatorship, Authoritarianism & Totalitarianism