Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
by wolverine876 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:35AM
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Who wrote the Dictator's Handbook? I haven't heard of it.
But yes, I think that's the basic idea. There are many levers to political power. Sometimes people think that authoritarians rule by fiat, like a god, but they also are balancing and managing many political factors (though not so much the free will of the people).
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests
by tdeck on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:16PM
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Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. I'm not familiar with either of them or with other work in this space, but I found their arguments compelling.
But yes, I think that's the basic idea. There are many levers to political power. Sometimes people think that authoritarians rule by fiat, like a god, but they also are balancing and managing many political factors (though not so much the free will of the people).