The Logic of Political Survival
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780262524407
Subjects: Central government policies; Political economy; Political leaders & leadership; Political Science; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Political; Political Process - General
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).