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The Logic of Political Survival (Paperback, Revised)
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The Logic of Political Survival (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Logic of Political Survival
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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 and Winner of the 2004
Best Book Award presented by the Conflict Processes section of the
American Political Science Association (APSA) The authors of this
ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are
leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while
those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure?
Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related
economic question of why some countries experience successful
economic development and others do not. The authors construct a
provocative theory on the selection of leaders and present specific
formal models from which their central claims can be deduced. They
show how political leaders allocate resources and how institutions
for selecting leaders create incentives for leaders to pursue good
and bad public policy. They also extend the model to explain the
consequences of war on political survival. Throughout the book,
they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancient
Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics
gathered from cross-national data. The authors explain the
political intuition underlying their theory in nontechnical
language, reserving formal proofs for chapter appendixes. They
conclude by presenting policy prescriptions based on what has been
demonstrated theoretically and empirically.
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