About This Book
“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do w...
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Reading Time Estimates
10h 17m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 24m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 17m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 111,100 words📅 15 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
7 h 24 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
8 h 14 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
12 h 21 min
Audio 2x
6 h 10 min
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- 📅15 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇15 commutes of 30 min each