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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.

This Mini Explainer introduces The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, focusing on why leaders behave the way they do regardless of ideology or personal morality. The book shows that political outcomes are driven less by intentions than by the size of the group a leader must keep satisfied to survive.

Rather than blaming corruption or cruelty on “bad people,” the framework reveals how systems reward these behaviors when loyalty can be bought cheaply and punished when public goods threaten elite control.

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