Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on
political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They
started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in
power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their
subjects-unless they must. Newly updated to reflect the global rise
of authoritarianism, this clever and accessible book illustrates
how leaders amass and retain power. 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.
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