Bruce Bueno the Mesquita

Bruce Bueno the Mesquita (born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist , professor at New York University , and a senior fellow at Stanford University ‘s Hoover Institution .

Biography

Bueno the Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and-then his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan . He gespecialiseerd in international relations , foreign policy , and nation building . He is one of the authors of the selectorate theory , and been killed the director of New York University ‘s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy . [ Citation needed ]

He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell, [1] dat gespecialiseerd in making political and foreign-policy forecasts . Bueno the Mesquita is discussed in an August 16, 2009 Sunday New York Times Magazine article entitled “Can Game Theory Predictable When Iran Will Get the Bomb?” [2] have in January 2008’ll be the subject of a History Channel two-hour special entitled “The Next Nostradamus “.

Publications

  • The War Trap . New Haven: Yale University Press . 1981. p. 226. ISBN  0-300-03091-6 .
  • Forecasting Political Events: The Future of Hong Kong (with David Newman and Alvin Rabushka). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. ISBN 9780300042795 OCLC  11970890
  • Predicting Politics . Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780814259849 OCLC  804351067
  • The Logic of Political Survival . Cambridge: MIT Press . 2003. p. 480. ISBN  0-262-52440-6 . (with Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, James D. Morrow)
  • The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press . 2007. p. 356. ISBN  978-0-472-03319-5 . (with Kiron K. Skinner, Serhiy Kudelia, Condoleezza Rice)
  • The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future . Random House . 2009. p. 272. ISBN  1-4000-6787-1 . OCLC  290470064 .
  • The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics . Random House . 2011. p. 272. ISBN  9781610390446 . OCLC  701015473 .

References

  1. Jump up^ Rehmeyer, Julie. “Mathematical Fortune Count” . Science News . Retrieved 12 May 2011 .
  2. Jump up^ Thompson, Clive (12 Aug 2009). “Can Game Theory Predictable When Iran Will Get the Bomb?” . New York Times . Retrieved 12 May 2011 .