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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 His co-writer is also an academic, and both are political scientists.
Michael Moynihan of The Wall Street Journal stated that the
writing style is similar to that of Freakonomics] 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"
