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发表于2024-06-16
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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.
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.
非常好读了 没畏惧感 //想到主编说的 书不求读完 当你知道你为什么要读并且达成了这项诉求 就可以放下了 觉得对 为自己看不完每一本专著找到好台阶
评分中亚一直在推荐书籍里显示中译版,评论说删节很多,终于提起兴趣找来原书看了一下,作者的一些观点非常硬脆斯汀,对民主和独裁剖析颇独到。想来天朝实在是地球一奇,经济与政治瘸着腿跑了那么远
评分选择人理论(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory)有点像用历史结果来决定建模准确性的游戏论的一个特例,优点是这个模型适合解释很多有趣的现象,尤其是近代非洲诸国独立后经历的各种独裁。如果你经常纳闷为何一个独裁者能稳固政权那么久,也许这本书可以提供一些答案,或者至少是思考的源头。
评分东方早报推荐的,文笔简洁,观点有趣。可惜我近期心情有限,没有读完就还给图书馆了。
评分用一种简单模型(interchangeable, influential, essential)去替代另一种简单模型(民主vs独裁),然后生搬硬套。废话太多,车轱辘话来回说,最后我就只看看每章最后的总结。举了不少例子但分析太浅且牵强。最有趣的是,中国和新加坡的成功被作者称为“例外”,然后干脆就不讨论了!
放诸古今皆准的权力规则 http://www.dfdaily.com/html/1170/2013/3/10/958748.shtml 万维钢 发表于2013-03-10 01:21 十九世纪末的比利时国王利奥波德二世完全有理由成为一些人心中的偶像。 不管你是独裁者还是民主国家领导人,或者公司的CEO,只要能不折不扣地执...
评分放诸古今皆准的权力规则 http://www.dfdaily.com/html/1170/2013/3/10/958748.shtml 万维钢 发表于2013-03-10 01:21 十九世纪末的比利时国王利奥波德二世完全有理由成为一些人心中的偶像。 不管你是独裁者还是民主国家领导人,或者公司的CEO,只要能不折不扣地执...
评分放诸古今皆准的权力规则 http://www.dfdaily.com/html/1170/2013/3/10/958748.shtml 万维钢 发表于2013-03-10 01:21 十九世纪末的比利时国王利奥波德二世完全有理由成为一些人心中的偶像。 不管你是独裁者还是民主国家领导人,或者公司的CEO,只要能不折不扣地执...
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...
The Dictator's Handbook pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024