About the Author
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics and director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University. He is the author of 16 books, including The Predictioneer’s Game.Alastair Smith is professor of politics at New York University. The recipient of three grants from the National Science Foundation and author of three books, he was chosen as the 2005 Karl Deutsch Award winner, given biennially to the best international relations scholar under the age of 40.
发表于2024-11-21
The Dictator's Handbook 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
很有趣的一本书 看完有一段时间了 也没做全书总结但仍印象深刻 据说中文版删改很多 回头看英文版吧 书里阐述了很多关于民主和独裁体制的关键特点等等 码了一大堆字,豆瓣告诉我涉及敏感内容不能发表。。。 总之...
评分据作者称支撑“选择人理论”的数理模型都在《政治生存的逻辑》一书里,本书仅是个面向普通人的入门通俗读物,所以这书的理论看起来非常粗略框架,基本上摈除了宗教、意识形态、传统文化习俗什么的影响,更丝毫不扯伟光正的理想和道统,纯从群体社会中个人的“政治生存直觉”出...
评分刘瑜女士将本书暗示为“民主颂”,完全同意。但她直接把最后一章“怎么办”的内容忽略了。我摘几段,大家就明白为什么了:(这里的“我们”指美国)“当某个外国的人民普遍反对我们的根本利益,我们获得想要的东西的最好办法就是让该国人民处于按美国人民意愿办事的独裁者的高...
评分你可以把这本书看成一个教程。 观察下来,有效。 有几个地方更需要注意: 1. 尽量观察那些存活了五十年以上的组织。 2. 这些组织,也符合本书的规则,但更高效,所以延续更久,矛盾解决更好。 3. 昙花一现式的组织,其实不需要太在意的。胡人无百年之国运,但满清也破了此例,...
评分欢迎关注我的微信公众号:Master熊。每周看本书,看完做图解。 小熊之前啃了一本书——《独裁者手册》,看完后感觉打开了视角的新大门。所以在这也把这本书图解下,分享给大家。 先说下本书中的核心——选举人理论。小熊尽量简洁得表述,也请大家仔细看看。 一、领导人被谁...
图书标签: 政治 政治学 社会学 Politics 独裁 政治哲学 英文原版 比较政治
In this title, two renowned political scientists make the contrarian, research-based case that - regardless of any other factors political scientists or historians may find relevant - the calculations and actions of rulers are the driving force of all politics, and the primary goal of rulers is to maintain power as long as possible. In this clever and accessible book, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith introduce us to their perspective of the political world. They bare the logic of politics, starting from the simple premise that leaders pursue their own ends, and that populations either have, or more often don't have, the power to constrain them to a significant degree. The book is organized by a series interconnected questions, among them: Why do leaders who wreck their countries keep their jobs for so long? Why do autocracies have dismal economic policies? How are there so many suffering people in resource-rich lands? Why do 'natural disasters' disproportionately strike poor nations? Why do 'evil-doers' so often collect loads of foreign aid? Why are democracies so good at war? In answering these questions, the authors look at politics, the choices of public policies, and even decisions about war and peace as lying outside of conventional thinking about culture and history. They set aside ideas of civic virtue and psychopathology. Such notions simply are not central to understanding what leaders do and why they do it. Instead, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith see politicians as self-interested louts, just the sort of people you wouldn't want to have over for dinner, but without whom you might not have dinner at all. And from this perspective, they are able to answer some perplexing mysteries of politics, shed light on what we read in the newspapers every single day, and offer realistic ways of improving human governance.
脑洞太大,有点儿牵强。不过有些部分(比如援助问题)听起来挺有道理的。 分好高啊。
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评分作者还是想说民主是个好东西. 此外, 对外援助通讯器材比食品药物更有利于推进被援助国的民主
评分作者还是想说民主是个好东西. 此外, 对外援助通讯器材比食品药物更有利于推进被援助国的民主
评分I think selectorate theory is an extention of realism school instead of a stand-alone theory. Overall an exciting theory with somewhat funky examples.
The Dictator's Handbook 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书