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<b>“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —<i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br> 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 ju
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- Author
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs; Brand: PublicAffairs
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781610390446
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (367 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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