The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alaistar Smith

For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to.