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Pros

While the subtitle is why bad behavior is almost always good politics, the subtext is the very fragileness of democracy itself. This is politics as it is, in the here and now. Looking at policy decisions as a matter of politicians' own self-interest r... Read More

The dictator's handbook is a thoughtful, well reasoned and argued look at the true nature of politicians and the art and science of staying in power. The book is not a literal handbook to be the next malicious dictator (great title though), but rather... Read More

Leaders want to keep the number of essentials as small as possible to have as few people to pay off as possible and keep more money for himself. This is so that the leader can provide large rewards to ensure the coalition’s loyalty. Control the flow o... Read More

The author contends that the size of supporters that leaders count on, determines the regime type. Democratic regimes tend to have larger coalitions or essentials and autocratic states have smaller coalitions. But, autocratic nations with lots of natu... Read More

The authors break the spectrum of supporters into three categories of the interchangeables; the influentials; and the essentials. The influentials matter to some degree. But, what really needs to change is governance and how resources are allocated.

Cons

It claims to have all of the answers, but never seems to address or even explore alternate explanations. Another weakness - the authors fail to address the fact that some supporters are more important than others. Sorry, but there is fake news and fak... Read More

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Quality

The book is a bit lengthy and is certainly peppered with the opinions of the authors but this isnt necessarily a bad thing as t... Read More

Surely if the principals explained in this book become common knowledge to the global population the public’s expectation about... Read More

A distillation of authors scholarly the logic of political survival this work retains much of that research and conclusions and... Read More

Packaging/appearance

Also it was hard for me to finish this book not because it talks about taxes it does not in a boring way but because my mood t... Read More

Competitiveness

Precise and realistic description of our political world

According to the author in order to root out dictatorship and corruption political leaders need to be accountable to more peopl... Read More

These are1 keep the winning coalition as small as possible

This book has changed how i look at the world

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This product had a total of 1,066 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 2 2022.