The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

When the international community pushes for elections without being careful about how meaningful they are, all that is accomplished is to further entrench a nasty regime.

They cannot be altered.

You haven't really proven this, simply that selectorate theory is a predictive model for current politics.

sooner or later every society will cross the divide between small-coalition, large-selectorate misery to a large coalition that is a large proportion of the selectorate—and