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The dictator's handbook : why bad behavior is almost always good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781610390446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 161039044X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.3/4 23
LOC classification:
  • JC330.3 .B84 2011
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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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 303.3 BUE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900075
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-299) and index.

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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