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The dictator's handbook : [why bad behavior is almost always good politics] / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith make the claim that leaders do whatever it takes to keep themselves in power.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781452606903
- ISBN: 1452606900
- Physical Description: 10 audio discs (11.50 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, Inc., ℗2012.
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | Bonus material: This audiobook contains graphs and figures (flash presentation on multimode CD). Insert any disc for automatic start-up. Subtitle from container. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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? |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Johnny Heller. |
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Subject: | Political leadership > Philosophy. Power (Social sciences) Political corruption. |