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Compliments of mb7art

Our starting point is the realization that any leader worth her salt wants as much power as she can get, and to keep it for as long as possible (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith, 2011, p. 11).

In The Dictator’s Handbook, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2011) explain that leaders’ actions (both good and bad) can be understood as efforts to save their own skin. Turn the page…

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