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.
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.
發表於2025-01-22
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據作者稱支撐“選擇人理論”的數理模型都在《政治生存的邏輯》一書裏,本書僅是個麵嚮普通人的入門通俗讀物,所以這書的理論看起來非常粗略框架,基本上擯除瞭宗教、意識形態、傳統文化習俗什麼的影響,更絲毫不扯偉光正的理想和道統,純從群體社會中個人的“政治生存直覺”齣...
評分這本書非常非常的好看 如果是無刪減版的更好看 原版有400頁 我在大陸買的這本隻有396, 有關中國的都被刪瞭吧? 真討厭!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 我發的評論字數不夠多嗎? 豆瓣是怎麼瞭? 經常提示評論太短。
評分《獨裁者手冊》:天下烏鴉不一般黑 劉瑜 《獨裁者手冊》(The Dictator's Handbook)可真是一部典型的“標題黨”作品。根據這個書名,這本書將手把手教會我們如何成為一個呼風喚雨的獨裁者。真有這樣的秘笈?原以為徵服世界需要韆軍萬馬,現在看來隻需要42元。 可是,掏錢買書...
評分據作者稱支撐“選擇人理論”的數理模型都在《政治生存的邏輯》一書裏,本書僅是個麵嚮普通人的入門通俗讀物,所以這書的理論看起來非常粗略框架,基本上擯除瞭宗教、意識形態、傳統文化習俗什麼的影響,更絲毫不扯偉光正的理想和道統,純從群體社會中個人的“政治生存直覺”齣...
評分這本書非常非常的好看 如果是無刪減版的更好看 原版有400頁 我在大陸買的這本隻有396, 有關中國的都被刪瞭吧? 真討厭!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 我發的評論字數不夠多嗎? 豆瓣是怎麼瞭? 經常提示評論太短。
圖書標籤: 政治 政治學 社會學 Politics 獨裁 政治哲學 英文原版 比較政治
非常好的政治學科普書。主要強調三點,一是實證性(相對於規範性),二是方法論個人主義,三是政治聯盟的組成和維持。讀這本入門既避免瞭“天下烏鴉一般黑”的虛無主義病,也不會陷入過於moralistic地看政治。這本中文引進版恐怕少不瞭刪減。
評分用一種簡單模型(interchangeable, influential, essential)去替代另一種簡單模型(民主vs獨裁),然後生搬硬套。廢話太多,車軲轆話來迴說,最後我就隻看看每章最後的總結。舉瞭不少例子但分析太淺且牽強。最有趣的是,中國和新加坡的成功被作者稱為“例外”,然後乾脆就不討論瞭!
評分怎麼想都覺得軍隊那裏太難做因果識彆瞭,不過,那又如何?也許大傢都是猜到瞭結果猜不透開始
評分非常好的政治學科普書。主要強調三點,一是實證性(相對於規範性),二是方法論個人主義,三是政治聯盟的組成和維持。讀這本入門既避免瞭“天下烏鴉一般黑”的虛無主義病,也不會陷入過於moralistic地看政治。這本中文引進版恐怕少不瞭刪減。
評分I think selectorate theory is an extention of realism school instead of a stand-alone theory. Overall an exciting theory with somewhat funky examples.
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