The Logic of Political Survival
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780262025461
Subjects: Central government policies; Political economy; Political leaders & leadership; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political; Political Process - Leadership; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Heads of state; Political planning; Succession; Term of office
First sentence: Thomas Hobbes, writing in 1651, observed of life in the state of nature that it is "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short" (Hobbes [1651] 1996, chap. 13, p. 89).