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If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Topics: Become Being Civil Civil Service Clan Democrats Depend Dictator Dictators Drawn Family Generally Him Members Military Opportunities Power Protect Relationship Rich Senior Service Small Sustain Them Unlike

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To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Topics: Age Because Combined Dictator Dictators Economic Factors Fall Health Helps Led Newness Office Old Old Age Perfect Poor Produce Recognise Risk Storm Survival Those Trouble Understand Why

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There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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I'm not an Iran expert.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 24th, 1946

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