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The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
- Title
- The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
- Author
- Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946-
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | JC330.3 .B84 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Smith, Alastair, 1967-
- Description
- xxv, 319 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-299) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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?
- ISBN
- 9781610390446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781610390453 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2011024164
- OCLC
- 701015473
- SCSB-12675102
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library