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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.
In his 2004 book Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, described by its author as a "kind of sociological-pugilistic Bildungsroman" and a "scientific experiment", Wacquant attempts to demonstrate the "fruitfulness" of an approach to sociology that takes seriously the "fact that the social agent is before anything else a being of flesh ...
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.
Foucault first used the phrase "carceral archipelago" to describe the penal institution at Mettray, France.Foucault said that Mettray was the "most famous of a whole series of institutions which, well beyond the frontiers of criminal law, constituted what one might call the carceral archipelago."
[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 , and the book The Invention of Power (January 2022).
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 ...
For Palestinians, it would represent yet another chapter in a long history of dispossession and disenfranchisement, with their futures traded away for the political survival of leaders who view ...
Moynihan added that the conclusions the book makes originate from the fields of economics, history, and political science, leading him to call the authors "polymathic". [3] Mesquita and Smith, with other authors, previously wrote about the "selectorate" theory in the academic book The Logic of Political Survival. [4]: 1095