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发表于2025-02-16
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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.
一本本可以用十頁紙講完的書。Read the first few chapters and skim the rest. 這本書最大的問題就是業餘,而且花瞭太多時間去業餘。淺薄的另一麵就是很多細節沒有得到起碼的有用的解釋。比如說,當他所認為導緻腐敗的元素一直是固定的時候,那他就有必要解釋一下在不同時間不同地點為什麼checks on corruption産生瞭變化。
評分怎麼想都覺得軍隊那裏太難做因果識彆瞭,不過,那又如何?也許大傢都是猜到瞭結果猜不透開始
評分重點看瞭看中文版刪節部分,再看的話評價沒有那麼高瞭,部分觀點值得商榷,不過仍然是值得看的好書。
評分很討厭這種寫作風格,感覺不舒服,要不就完全嚴謹學術寫作,要不就寫齣暢銷書應有的水準,這種mixed的真心覺得做作討厭。\\#多日後為寫paper的吐槽# 真是的學術著作嗎??敢不敢再不嚴謹點?
評分用一種簡單模型(interchangeable, influential, essential)去替代另一種簡單模型(民主vs獨裁),然後生搬硬套。廢話太多,車軲轆話來迴說,最後我就隻看看每章最後的總結。舉瞭不少例子但分析太淺且牽強。最有趣的是,中國和新加坡的成功被作者稱為“例外”,然後乾脆就不討論瞭!
本来对某些出版社愿意引进这样的书还是很高兴的,但如果把一本书经过断章取义的处理后再出版,很难讲还算不算做善事,因为有可能给原著抹黑。 翻了没几页,就看到“东北亚某个国家”这样的词了,本能的认为原著不可能这样写,于是找来英文原著做了简单的对照。没想到这一对照,...
評分年初在zaker上看到对本书的书评,看完书评以后就有看原著的强烈兴趣了。 作者在这本书里把对政治长达近20年的研究变成了普通老百姓都能看懂的通俗文字。 本书对于理解各国政府的行为有极大帮助,包括导致某搜索网站最终404的事件。本书对于统治的基本规则,不同执政者如何掌权...
評分你可以把这本书看成一个教程。 观察下来,有效。 有几个地方更需要注意: 1. 尽量观察那些存活了五十年以上的组织。 2. 这些组织,也符合本书的规则,但更高效,所以延续更久,矛盾解决更好。 3. 昙花一现式的组织,其实不需要太在意的。胡人无百年之国运,但满清也破了此例,...
評分本来对某些出版社愿意引进这样的书还是很高兴的,但如果把一本书经过断章取义的处理后再出版,很难讲还算不算做善事,因为有可能给原著抹黑。 翻了没几页,就看到“东北亚某个国家”这样的词了,本能的认为原著不可能这样写,于是找来英文原著做了简单的对照。没想到这一对照,...
評分据作者称支撑“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 電子書 下載 2025