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The Logic of Political Survival is a 2003 non-fiction book co-written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow, published by MIT Press. It formally introduces and develops the selectorate theory of politics.
The selectorate theory is a theory of government that studies the interactive relationships between political survival strategies and economic realities. It is first detailed in The Logic of Political Survival, authored by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of New York University (NYU), Alastair Smith of NYU, Randolph M. Siverson of UC Davis, and James D. Morrow of the University of Michigan.
[3] In December 2008 he was also the subject of a History Channel two-hour special entitled "The Next Nostradamus" and has been featured on the 2021 Netflix series How to Become a Tyrant. He is the author of many books, including The Dictator's Handbook , co-authored with Alastair Smith, [ 4 ] and the book The Invention of Power (January 2022).
In 2003 he received the Best Book Award for 2002-2003 from Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association for The Logic of Political Survival co-authored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, and Randolph M. Siverson. [5] [6] [7] This book was also selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004.
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror; Lettres des Jeux olympiques; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma; Life at the Bottom; Le Livre noir du capitalisme; The Logic of Political Survival; The Lost Boys of Bird Island; Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism; Love Does Not Win ...
In 2006, Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and professor at the University of Chicago Law School, wrote a book called Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. [7] [8] Posner's position [clarification needed] has drawn both critical opposition [8] and support. [9]
Snyder was born in February 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, receiving a B.A. in government in 1973. From 1973 to 1975 he was on the research staff of the Wednesday Group (a grouping of liberal Republicans), and later the foreign policy staff of Illinois senator Charles H. Percy.
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups is a book by Mancur Olson Jr. published in 1965. It develops a theory of political science and economics of concentrated benefits versus diffuse costs .