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The Dictator's Handbook lilith's broodA lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority. Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smiths 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 dont care about the national interestor even their subjectsunless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy

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