Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Biography Bueno de Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, , earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is one of the originators of selectorate theory, and was also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy from 2006 to 2016.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Published Works

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Published Works

The Logic of Political Survival (2003) (3911)
An Introduction to Game Theory (2014) (1090)
The War Trap (1981) (1052)
An Institutional Explanation of the Democratic Peace (1999) (979)
War and the Survival of Political Leaders: A Comparative Study of Regime Types and Political Accountability (1995) (662)
War and Reason (2017) (540)
Leader Survival, Revolutions, and the Nature of Government Finance (2010) (402)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Domestic Politics and War (1988) (364)
War and reason : domestic and international imperatives (1992) (358)
Thinking Inside the Box: A Closer Look at Democracy and Human Rights (2005) (357)
A Political Economy of Aid (2009) (355)
Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions (2007) (317)
Development and democracy (2005) (276)
War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis (1992) (268)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics (2011) (242)
Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional Change (2009) (238)
Political Institutions, Policy Choice and the Survival of Leaders (2002) (222)
Measuring Systemic Polarity (1975) (190)
Intervention and Democracy (2006) (187)
Choosing Sides in Wars (1979) (181)
European Community Decision Making : Models, Applications, And Comparisons (1994) (167)
The War Trap Revisited: A Revised Expected Utility Model (1985) (153)
Capabilities, Perception, and Escalation (1997) (149)
Domestic Politics and International Relations (2002) (130)
Policy Failure and Political Survival (1999) (128)
An Assessment of the Merits of Selective Nuclear Proliferation (1982) (126)
Governing for prosperity (2000) (122)
Systemic Polarization and the Occurrence and Duration of War (1978) (114)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Theory of Hegemonic War (1988) (109)
Principles Of International Politics (1999) (109)
Forecasting Political Events: The Future of Hong Kong (1987) (108)
Toward a Scientific Understanding of International Conflict: A Personal View (1985) (103)
Retesting Selectorate Theory: Separating the Effects of W from Other Elements of Democracy (2008) (95)
Principles of international politics : people's power, preferences, and perceptions (2006) (90)
European Community Decision Making (1994) (90)
THE ROCHESTER SCHOOL: The Origins of Positive Political Theory (1999) (89)
Risk, Power Distributions, and the Likelihood of War (1981) (83)
An Expected Utility Theory of International Conflict (1980) (82)
Empirical Support for Systemic and Dyadic Explanations of International Conflict (1988) (78)
Domestic Explanations of International Relations (2012) (75)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (1989) (75)
Domestic Opposition and Foreign War (1990) (69)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Contribution of Expected Utility Theory to the Study of International Conflict (1988) (66)
Decision-making models, rigor and new puzzles (2004) (58)
Popes, Kings, and Endogenous Institutions: The Concordat of Worms and the Origins of Sovereignty (2000) (57)
Forecasting Policy Decisions: An Expected Utility Approach to Post-Khomeini Iran (1984) (55)
Contingent Prize Allocation and Pivotal Voting (2011) (53)
Pride of Place: The Origins of German Hegemony (1990) (50)
Game Theory, Political Economy, and the Evolving Study of War and Peace (2006) (50)
How Perceptions Influence the Risk of War (1995) (50)
SELF-INTEREST, EQUITY, AND CRIME CONTROL: A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL DECISION MAKING (1995) (50)
Red Flag Over Hong Kong (1996) (49)
Sorting Through the Wealth of Notions (1999) (48)
Big wars, little wars: Avoiding selection bias (1990) (48)
The End of the Cold War: Predicting an Emergent Property (1998) (46)
Multilateral negotiations: a spatial analysis of the Arab–Israeli dispute (1990) (43)
A decision making model: Its structure and form (1997) (43)
The expected prospects for peace in northern Ireland (2001) (43)
Nasty or Nice? (1997) (41)
A New Model for Predicting Policy Choices (2011) (38)
Political Institutions, Political Survival, and Policy Success (2000) (35)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of War: Structural Theories (1989) (35)
Competition and Collaboration in Aid-for-Policy Deals (2016) (34)
Strategy, Risk and Personality in Coalition Politics: The Case of India (1976) (34)
Symposium on Replication in International Studies Research (2003) (33)
Crossing No Man's Land: Cooperation From the Trenches (2004) (32)
A New Model for Predicting Policy Choices Preliminary Tests* (2010) (32)
The Costs of War: A Rational Expectations Approach (1983) (31)
When Bad Economics is Good Politics (2000) (30)
Alliances, Capabilities, and War: A Review and Synthesis (1973) (27)
Coalition payoffs and electoral performance in european democracies (1979) (26)
Aid Blame It All on “Easy Money” (2013) (23)
Assessing the dispute in the South China Sea: a model of China's security decision making (1994) (23)
Political Instability As a Source of Growth (2000) (20)
Violence and crime in India : a quantitative study (1977) (17)
Political Survival and Endogenous Institutional (2009) (15)
Predicting the Future in Science, Economics, and Politics (2014) (14)
Forecasting the Risks of Nuclear Proliferation: Taiwan as an Illustration of the Method (1993) (14)
Dissolving Boundaries: Introduction (2003) (14)
The Political Roots of Poverty (2002) (14)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of the Thirty Years' War (1988) (13)
Foreign Policy Analysis and Rational Choice Models (2010) (12)
Political Loyalty and Leader Health (2018) (11)
Predicting Paris: Multi-Method Approaches to Forecast the Outcomes of Global Climate Negotiations (2016) (10)
A Critique of “A Critique of The War Trap” (1984) (10)
Redistricting and Political Integration in India (1978) (10)
Getting Firm on Replication (2003) (10)
The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy (1972) (9)
Crossing No Man's Land: Cooperation From (2004) (9)
Tanzania’s Economic and Political Performance: A District-Level Test of Selectorate Theory (2015) (9)
The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (2007) (8)
The Political Economy of Corporate Fraud: A Theory and Empirical Tests (2004) (7)
Dyadic Power, Expectations, and War (1989) (7)
Threat and alignment behavior (1988) (7)
A Mark in Time Saves Nein (1992) (6)
Central Issues In The Study Of International Conflict (2008) (6)
Statistical Analysis of Finite Choice Models in Extensive Form (1999) (6)
Democracy and Foreign Policy (Guest Editor) (1991) (6)
Ruminations on Challenges to Prediction with Rational Choice Models (2003) (6)
William Harrison Riker (2001) (5)
Theory and the advancement of knowledge about war: a reply (1984) (5)
Forecasting China’s Political and Economic Future (1997) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Wargames: 1914–1919 (1988) (5)
THE NATIONAL INTEREST VERSUS INDIVIDUAL POLITICAL AMBITION Democracy , Autocracy , and the Reciprocation of Force and Violence in Militarized Interstate Disputes (2006) (5)
Political Survival and International Conflict (1999) (5)
Leopold II and the Selectorate: An Account in Contrast to a Racial Explanation (2007) (5)
The Road to War is Strewn with Peaceful Intentions (1989) (5)
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism (1988) (5)
Decision-Making Models, Rigor and New Puzzles (2004) (4)
Conceptualizing War: A reply (1987) (4)
Negotiation in International Politics (2004) (4)
Prizes, Groups and Pivotal Voting in a Poisson Voting Game (2011) (4)
Prospects for a New Regional Order in Northeast Asia (1991) (4)
Gun-Barrel Democracy Has Failed Time and Again (2004) (4)
Minimum Winning Coalition, in Politics (2001) (4)
Systemic Polarization and the Occurrence and Duration of War (1978) (4)
Modeling War and Peace (1987) (4)
Political Development and the Threat of Revolution (2006) (3)
Policy Outcomes and Policy Interventions: An Expected Utility Analysis (1994) (3)
Testing the Selectorate Explanation of the Democratic Peace (2003) (3)
Recipe for failure (2009) (3)
Reply to Stephen Krasner and Robert Jervis (1985) (3)
How Tyrants Endure (2011) (3)
Complements in the Quest for Understanding Comparative Politics (2006) (3)
The struggle for mastery in Europe, 1985-1993 (1996) (3)
Prediction : how to see and shape the future with game theory (2010) (3)
The Selectorate Theory and International Politics (2017) (3)
Aid (1996) (3)
The limits of American foreign commitments (1982) (2)
Expected Utility Theory and the Study of International Conflict (1989) (2)
Conceptualizing War (1987) (2)
Selling Out on the UN Security Council 1 (2009) (2)
Forecasting the 1992 French Referendum (1993) (2)
The Selectorate Model: A Theory of Political Institutions (2002) (2)
Making Security Studies Relevant to Policy Makers (1997) (2)
Models Of Exchange And Of Expected Utility Maximization : A Comparison Of Accuracy (1994) (2)
Predicting the future to shape the future (2014) (2)
Need for Achievement and Competitiveness as Determinants of Political Party Success in Elections and Coalitions (1974) (2)
The Strategy of Campaigning (2007) (1)
Repeal Order 12333 (1989) (1)
Ecological security and the promotion of peace: A DMZ Eco-peace park (2015) (1)
How to Make a Lasting Peace in the Middle East (1979) (1)
Prizes, Groups and Pivotality in a Poisson Voting Game (2011) (1)
Chavan and the Troubled Decade (1973) (1)
North Korean Economic Reform and Political Stability (1996) (1)
Institutions, Outcomes and the Survival of Leaders (2000) (1)
The End of the Cold War (1998) (1)
Domestic and International Imperatives in the Specification of Foreign Policy Objectives (1993) (1)
Erratum: Retesting selectorate theory, separating the effect of W from other elements of democracy (American Political Science Review (2008) 102:3 (393-400)) (2008) (1)
From Investiture to Worms: A Political Economy of European Development and the Rise of Secular Authority∗ (2018) (1)
IMF Loans Must Be Linked To Reform (1999) (1)
Evaluating Arguments about International Politics (2014) (1)
A catch to Moul's catch, or why great powers act as expected by utility maximizers (1987) (1)
Power Relationships, Democratic Constraints and War (1994) (1)
Ruminations on Challenges to Prediction with Rational Choice Models (2003) (1)
Tournaments , Prizes , and Political Support : Explaining LDP Dominance in Japanese House of Representatives Elections , 1980-2000 (2017) (0)
The Spoils of War: Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents (2016) (0)
An Open Economy, a Closed Society (2005) (0)
TRIAL OF EBENEZER SCROOGE (2021) (0)
Can Cash Help Push for Peace (2010) (0)
Contributors (2010) (0)
Chapter 5. Five Democratic Puzzles (2017) (0)
The Effective Population in International Politics (Translation: Italian) (1972) (0)
INDIA'S STRATEGIC PRACTICE: THEORY MEETS lllSTORY (2014) (0)
WPO volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
Turkey’s Coup: The Logic of the Political Purge (2016) (0)
The Good News about International Cooperation: A Tribute to the Life and Work of George W. Downs (2015) (0)
Chapter 2. The International Interaction Game (2017) (0)
Domestic Theories of War (2014) (0)
The War Trap Revisited: A Revised Expected Utility Model (1985) (0)
Reply to “Military Capabilities and Escalation: A Correction to Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, and Zorick” (2000) (0)
A Critique of “A Critique of The War Trap” (1984) (0)
[Aspects of malaria endemia in Sà da Bandeira]. (1952) (0)
Forecasting the Risks of Nuclear Proliferation (2020) (0)
A game of domestic imperatives: Audience costs and conflict avoidance (2023) (0)
For Hong Kong, a Bleak Future Under Beijing (1996) (0)
[Existence of intestinal schistosomiasis in Angola]. (1952) (0)
Improving the Effectiveness of Donor-Assisted Development (2000) (0)
Negotiation in International Politics (2004) (0)
[Schistosomiasis of the bladder in Angola]. (1952) (0)
Introduction (1991) (0)
[Unusual localization of an amebic abscess of the liver]. (1952) (0)
Forecasting Policy Decisions: An Expected Utility Approach to Post-Khomeini Iran (1984) (0)
[Case of amebic abscess of the liver treated with emetine combined with aureomycin]. (1952) (0)
An Expected Utility Theory of International Conflict (1980) (0)
Terrorism or Peace in the Middle East (1993) (0)
The Costs of War: A Rational Expectations Approach (1983) (0)
Redistricting and Political Integration in India (1978) (0)
Coalition Payoffs and Electoral Performance in European Democracies (1979) (0)
WPO volume 47 issue 1 Front matter (1994) (0)
Assessing Assad: Is Assad Crazy? (2011) (0)
University of Groningen Predicting Paris: Multi-Method Approaches to Forecast the Outcomes of Global Climate Negotiations Sprinz, (2012) (0)
Tools for Analyzing International Affairs (2014) (0)
Globalization: International Winners and Losers (2014) (0)
Foreign Aid, Poverty, and Revolution (2014) (0)
Paths to Peace and Prosperity (2009) (0)
Can Terrorism Be Rational (2014) (0)
INO volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2009) (0)
Politics Begins at the Water’s Edge (2007) (0)
Dispute Duration Testing Competing Institutional Explanations of the Democratic Peace : The Case of (2004) (0)
The Case for Submarine Launched Non-Nuclear Ballistic Missiles (2002) (0)
American Security and the Limits of Foreign Commitments (1981) (0)
Counterfactuals and International Affairs: (2020) (0)
Global Warming: Designing a Solution (2014) (0)
Preventing Future Enrons (2002) (0)
Chapter 8. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (2017) (0)
APSA Contributors as of 12/20/2006 (2007) (0)
The Strategic Perspective: When Foreign Policy Collides with Domestic Politics (2014) (0)
Why War? The Big Picture (2014) (0)
How International Organizations Work or Don't Work (2014) (0)
Ukraine’s Last Best Hope (2014) (0)
Modeling the Initiation, Escalation, and Termination of Conflict (1983) (0)
WPO volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
International Relations Theory and International Politics: An Inquiry into Methodology (1977) (0)
Back Matter (2002) (0)
From Investiture to Worms: European Development and the Rise of Political Authority (2023) (0)
Patronage , Groups and Pivotal Voting (2010) (0)
Preface and introduction: Overview of why this book matters (2014) (0)
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Washington University (2005) (0)
Fraud: A Theory and Empirical Tests (2004) (0)
A Democratic World Order: Peace Without Democratization (2014) (0)
Common Sense Realism and Phenomenology (1967) (0)
Human Rights, International Law, and Norms (2014) (0)
Free Trade or Fair: The Domestic Politics of Tariffs (2014) (0)
America’s Favorite Wars: And the Presidents Who Enjoyed Them (2016) (0)
Changing the Game (2009) (0)
Summary of Official Program (1984) (0)
Red, White and Peaceful: Advancing U.S. Security through Peaceful Means (2014) (0)
A Dictator’s Handbook for the President (2011) (0)
The Dictator’s Handbook (Translations: Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish) (2011) (0)

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