The Dictator's Handbook (52 page)

Amateur Sports Act (1978)

Civil War in

Congress

Constitution

debt of

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

and Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

and Liberia

and Pakistan

small adversaries of

stimulus plan in (2009)

Supreme Court

taxation in

at time of independence

and Turkey

unfavorable views of

US P-4 program

Universities

Uprisings.
See also
Military: allowing uprisings; Protest; Revolutions/ rebellions;
under
Egypt

Ursinus

USAID.
See
United States: Agency for International Development

Van de Walle, Nicolas

Vatzakas, Theodorus

Velez, Lorenzo

Venezuela

Venice, Republic of

Vietnam War

Voters

gay voters

incentives for

middle-class swing voters

as nominal selectorate

soldiers as

voter initiatives

See also
Elections

Vouchers

Vulgate

Walker, Edward

Wall Street

Wars war crimes
See also
Civil wars

Washington, George

Wayman, Robert P.

Wealth redistribution

Web sites.
See also
Internet

Weinberger, Caspar

Welch, Tom

Welfare state

Whales

Whistleblowers

Wikileaks

Wilson, Woodrow

Winning coalitions

large

purges of members

replacement of members

small

See also
Essentials

Women

World Bank

World Cup Finals

World economy

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World War I

World War II

Wrong, Michela

WTO.
See
World Trade Organization

Yanukovych, Viktor

Yeltsin, Boris

Yemen

Yukos oil company

Yushchenko, Viktor

Zaire

Zambia

Zanzibar

Zardari, Asif Ali

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Zbiri, Tahar

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)

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 and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Through his New York–based consulting firm, he has served as an adviser to the US government on national security matters and to numerous corporations on questions related to forecasting and engineering outcomes in negotiations. Bueno de Mesquita received his doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan in 1971. From 2001–2002, he was President of the International Studies Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Bueno de Mesquita is the author of 16 books, more than 120 articles, and numerous pieces in the
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune
, and
International Herald Tribune
among other publications
.

Alastair Smith is Professor of Politics at New York University. He previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at Yale University. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester and a BA in Chemistry from Oxford University. Smith, the recipient of three grants from the National Science Foundation, was chosen as the 2005 Karl Deutsch Award winner, given biennially to the best international relations scholar under the age of 40. In 1997–1998 he was selected as a National Fellow by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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Copyright © 2011 by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946–

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-610-39045-3

2. Power (Social sciences) 3. Political corruption. I. Smith, Alastair, 1967–II. Title.

JC330.3.B84 2011

303.3'4—dc23

2011024164