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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita at TED. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future, a TED talk (TED2009) The New Nostradamus Archived September 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine – on the use by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of rational choice theory in political forecasting; Example of Model Applied To Iran’s Nuclear Program Archived October 11, 2016 ...
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics is a 2011 non-fiction book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, published by the company PublicAffairs. It discusses how politicians gain and retain political power. Bueno de Mesquita is a fellow at the Hoover Institution. [1]
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist at New York University who is known for his research into conflict theory, his work on political science forecasting models, his consultant work with such forecasting models, and his publications on medieval European history, especially the history of the Catholic Church and Protestant Europe's ...
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.
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.
It is partly based on the 2011 non-fiction book The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. [2] It was followed by another series using the same format, also narrated by Dinklage, called How to Become a Cult Leader, which was released on 28 July 2023. On 14 November 2023, How to Become a Mob Boss was released.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who developed selectorate theory, explains that when an autocratic country has lots of natural resources, the ruler's optimal strategy for political survival is to use that revenue to buy the loyalty of critical support groups and oppress the rest of the population by denying them civil liberties and underfunding ...
The political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that the Concordat of Worms contained within itself the germ of nation-based sovereignty that would one day be confirmed in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). The Concordat of Worms created an incentive structure for the rulers of the Catholic parts of Europe such that in the northern regions ...