There’s Selectorate Theory. I read The Logic of Political Survival and I’ve been working on and off on a post distilling the theory. The theory seems very good to me (At the very least a great start), but I wasn’t satisfied with the resources about it.
The Logic of Political Survival is a long and somewhat difficult book, and the Dictator’s Handbook, though I only read parts of it, seems to not give a full coverage of the theory. one of the motivations for my post is to have a resource that’s more accessible but touches on all aspects of the theory. I hope to get back to it after I finish the post I’m currently focused on.
I’m also eagerly awaiting the full version of Nassim Taleb’s Principia Politica, of which there’s currently a short draft version online.
I look forward to your post! I have read Dictator’s Handbook, and thought it was pretty good, but I did think The Logic of Political Survival looked way better in terms of providing actual models.
The post is finally published! I’m not sure if it will quite satisfy your desire for the actual model because I didn’t get into the math or the specifics of how the game is constructed, because I think it deserves its own post and I would like to reproduce the model in code before I do that, but I still describe the model more deeply than The Dictator’s Handbook did. Hope you like it! :)
There’s Selectorate Theory. I read The Logic of Political Survival and I’ve been working on and off on a post distilling the theory. The theory seems very good to me (At the very least a great start), but I wasn’t satisfied with the resources about it.
The Logic of Political Survival is a long and somewhat difficult book, and the Dictator’s Handbook, though I only read parts of it, seems to not give a full coverage of the theory. one of the motivations for my post is to have a resource that’s more accessible but touches on all aspects of the theory. I hope to get back to it after I finish the post I’m currently focused on.
I’m also eagerly awaiting the full version of Nassim Taleb’s Principia Politica, of which there’s currently a short draft version online.
I look forward to your post! I have read Dictator’s Handbook, and thought it was pretty good, but I did think The Logic of Political Survival looked way better in terms of providing actual models.
The post is finally published! I’m not sure if it will quite satisfy your desire for the actual model because I didn’t get into the math or the specifics of how the game is constructed, because I think it deserves its own post and I would like to reproduce the model in code before I do that, but I still describe the model more deeply than The Dictator’s Handbook did. Hope you like it! :)