Author: Ronald Wintrobe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: dictatorship, economy, political
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2000-09-25
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521794498
ISBN-13: 9780521794497

Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behavior of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. This book uses rational choice theory to understand dictators: How do "successful" dictatorships stay in power? What determines the repressiveness of a regime? How do their economies work? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, and Pinochet’s Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies that should be followed by the democracies towar

Author: Ronald Wintrobe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: radicalism, economy, political, extremism, rational
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2006-08-14
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 0521859646
ISBN-13: 9780521859646

Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil. But they can be, especially when they are intolerant and violent. What makes extremists turn violent? This book assumes that extremists are rational: given their ends, they choose the best means to achieve them. The analysis explains why extremist leaders use the tactics they do, and why they are often insensitive to punishment and to loss of life. It also explains how rational people can be motivated to die for the cause. The book covers differ

Authors:Ronald Wintrobe, Mario Ferrero,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: theocracy, economy, political
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230613101
ISBN-13: 9780230613102

This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behave, by taking a rational choice approach in theory, by providing excellent and up to date empirical surveys by leading scholars of the economic performance of Iran and of Muslim countries in general, and by looking at the behavior of historical theocracies.

Authors:Ronald G. Davis, Ronald L. Nickelson, Jonathan Under
Publisher: Standard Publishing Company
Keywords: commentary, lesson, standard, niv
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2002-05
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 078471293X
ISBN-13: 9780784712931

Authors:Ronald Syme, Ronald Mellor,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, sallust
Number of Pages: 433
Published: 2002-06-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520234790
ISBN-13: 9780520234796

With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust--whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian--in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme’s text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. H

Authors:Jon C. Leachtenauer, Ronald G. Driggers, Ronald G. D
Publisher: Artech Print on Demand
Keywords: performance, prediction, modeling, systems, reconnaissance, surveillance
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $192.00
ISBN-10: 1580531326
ISBN-13: 9781580531320

An up-to-date, comprehensive review of surveillance and reconnaissance (S&R) imaging system modelling and performance prediction. This resource helps the reader predict the information potential of new surveillance system designs, compare and select from alternative measures of information extraction, relate the performance of tactical acquisition sensors and surveillance sensors, and understand the relative importance of each element of the image chain on S&R system performance. It provides system descriptions and characteristics, S&R modelling history, and performance modelling d

中文参考译名:一切开始指南和运行餐厅：一个成功的商业秘诀！ （一切：企业和个人金融）
Authors:Ronald Lee Restaurateur, Ronald Lee,
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: everything, business, personal, finance, successful, restaurant, guide, starting, running, secrets
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-12-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 159337433X
ISBN-13: 9781593374334