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The Dictator's Handbook

Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

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The Dictator's Handbook

Auteur(s): Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
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 “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind, but only in the number of essential supporters or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with and the quality of life or misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people. Idéologies et doctrines Politique Sciences politiques Socialisme Gouvernement Capitalisme

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Simply the best book on politics written.... Every citizen should read this book.—CGP Grey
A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority...Bueno de Mesquita and Smith are polymathic, drawing on economics, history, and political science to make their points...The reader will be hard-pressed to find a single government that doesn't largely operate according to Messrs. Bueno de Mesquita and Smith's model. So the next time a hand-wringing politician, Democrat or Republican, claims to be taking a position for the 'good of his country,'remember to replace the word 'country' with 'career.'—Wall Street Journal
Machiavelli's The Prince has a new rival. It's The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.... This is a fantastically thought-provoking read. I found myself not wanting to agree but actually, for the most part, being convinced that the cynical analysis is the true one.—Enlightenment Economics
In this fascinating book Bueno de Mesquita and Smith spin out their view of governance: that all successful leaders, dictators and democrats, can best be understood as almost entirely driven by their own political survival-a view they characterize as 'cynical, but we fear accurate.' Yet as we follow the authors through their brilliant historical assessments of leaders' choices-from Caesar to Tammany Hall and the Green Bay Packers-we gradually realize that their brand of cynicism yields extremely realistic guidance about spreading the rule of law, decent government, and democracy. James Madison would have loved this book.—R. James Woolsey Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995, and Chairman, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
In this book, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith teach us to see dictatorship as just another form of politics, and from this perspective they deepen our understanding of all political systems.—Roger Myerson, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
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Important lessons for decent human beings and great tips for the rest of us.

In all seriousness, this is full of enlightening data and historical examples for how dictators gain power and keep it. it also includes modern evidence and is definitely a must read for any politico, any activist, and any leader.

If you want productivity and prosperity for your people, don't be a dic tator.

Educational and Entertaining

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I went in resisting the message but in the end the reasoning is sound. It is most certainly an endorsement of democracy despite the dark underpinnings.

Eye-opening

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The updated 2022 The Dictator's Handbook (15hrs & 38mins) is better than the original 2011 version (11hrs & 45mins).

While the 2022 version does go over some of the same stories as the 2011 version, there is a lot of new things added and to me, feels competently like a new book.

My only disappoint comes from the fact that the audiobook was delayed at least twice, and when the Philippines was brought up, I was thinking one of the reasons for the delay, was to talk about Bongbong Marcos becoming president, a position his dictator father once held.

Better Than Ever!

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