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.
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評分放諸古今皆準的權力規則 http://www.dfdaily.com/html/1170/2013/3/10/958748.shtml 萬維鋼 發錶於2013-03-10 01:21 十九世紀末的比利時國王利奧波德二世完全有理由成為一些人心中的偶像。 不管你是獨裁者還是民主國傢領導人,或者公司的CEO,隻要能不摺不扣地執...
評分本來對某些齣版社願意引進這樣的書還是很高興的,但如果把一本書經過斷章取義的處理後再齣版,很難講還算不算做善事,因為有可能給原著抹黑。 翻瞭沒幾頁,就看到“東北亞某個國傢”這樣的詞瞭,本能的認為原著不可能這樣寫,於是找來英文原著做瞭簡單的對照。沒想到這一對照,...
評分本來對某些齣版社願意引進這樣的書還是很高興的,但如果把一本書經過斷章取義的處理後再齣版,很難講還算不算做善事,因為有可能給原著抹黑。 翻瞭沒幾頁,就看到“東北亞某個國傢”這樣的詞瞭,本能的認為原著不可能這樣寫,於是找來英文原著做瞭簡單的對照。沒想到這一對照,...
評分劉瑜女士將本書暗示為“民主頌”,完全同意。但她直接把最後一章“怎麼辦”的內容忽略瞭。我摘幾段,大傢就明白為什麼瞭:(這裏的“我們”指美國)“當某個外國的人民普遍反對我們的根本利益,我們獲得想要的東西的最好辦法就是讓該國人民處於按美國人民意願辦事的獨裁者的高...
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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.
評分書評已發:《放諸古今皆準的權力規則》
評分今年讀的最後一本書,和 why nation fails相得益彰。一個是講政治,一個講經濟,其實說的都是同一件事。以前拿起the logic of political survival,結果沒看下去,模型有點太復雜,這本確實非常容易讀。
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