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Prince, The (Machiavelli)

Privatization

Productivity

Property confiscations

Prosperity

Protest. See also Revolutions/rebellions; Uprisings

Prussia

Psychopathology

Public goods/private goods

private goods in democracies

private goods in small coalition settings

See also Government spending; Public works

Public housing

Public policy

Public welfare. See also Common good

Public works. See also Public goods/private goods

Puppet regimes

Putin, Vladimir

Qaddafi, Muammar

Qatar

Quality of life

Quiwonkpa, Thomas

Raja of Ramgarh

Rakove, Milton

Rallies

Rawlings, Jerry John “J.J.,”

Rawls, John

Reagan, Ronald

Reaganomics

Realist school of international relations

Rebellions. See Revolutions/ rebellions

Recessions

Reforms

Refugee camps

Regents

Regulations

Religion

religious conversion

See also Catholic Church

Republican Party (U.S.)

Republics

Resource curse

Revenues. See also Money; Taxation

Revolutions/rebellions

colored revolutions

democratic revolutions

preventing

See also Protest; Uprisings

Richard the Lionheart (English king)

Richard III (English king)

Rights. See

also Freedoms; Human rights

Riots

Rizzo, Robert

Roads

Rockefeller family

Rohm, Ernst

Romano, Roberto

Rome

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt family

Rosendorff, Peter

Rule of law

Rules

rules to fix by

rules to rule by

Russia

corruption in

Russian Revolution

See also Soviet Union

Sadat, Anwar

Salaries, government. See also Military: army salaries

Salmon, Gary Prado

Salt Lake City winter games

Sanctions

San Francisco board of supervisors

Sanitation

Santa Monica, California

Sarbanes-Oxley Bill

Saudi Arabia

Scandinavian nations. See also Norway

Scott, Ridley

SEC. See Securities and Exchange Commission

Secessionist movements

Second Gulf War. See Iraq: Iraq War

Secrecy. See also Transparency

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Selassie, Haile

Selectorates, nominal/real

relative size of

See also Influentials; Interchangeables; Winning coalitions

Self-determination

Self-interest

Separation of powers. See also Checks and balances

Serbia

Seven Weeks War (1866)

Shareholders. See under Corporations

Sharia

Shariati, Ali

Shiites

Shwe, Than (General)

Sin, Cardinal Jamie

Sinai

Singapore

Siverson, Randolph M.

Six Day War

Slavery

Smith, Alastair

Smith, Ian

Smuggling

Social networking

Social security

Solomon (King)

Somalia

Somali pirates

Somoza Garcia, Anastasio

South Africa

South Carolina

South Korea

Soviet Union . See also Russia

Spoils of war

Sri Lanka

Stability

Stalin, Joseph

Standard of living

Starvation

State legislatures

State of emergency

Stock value/dividends

Strikes

Subsidies

Succession issues. See also Inheritance

Sudan

Suez Canal

Suharto

Sunday Times newspaper

Sunnis

Sun Tzu

Supply/demand

Switzerland

Syria

Taft family

Taiwan

Taliban

Tammany Hall (New York)

Tanzania

TARP funds

Taxation

capital gains and inheritance taxes

collecting taxes

constraints concerning

as discouraging work

income tax

indirect taxes

in Iran and Turkey

Mexico’s tax take and democratization

property taxes

and regime type

tax farmers

vodka tax

and winning coalitions

Taylor, Charles

Tchombe, Moise

Tea Party

Technology

Telecommunications

Television. See also Media

Terrorism

terrorist attacks of 2001

Thabeik hmauk ritual

Thatcher, Margaret

Theodosius (emperor)

Third world

Three Gorges Dam

Tiananmen Square

Tiberius (emperor)

Time magazine

Tolbert, William

Tonga

Torture

Tourism

Trade concessions

Trade unions

Transparency. See also Accountability

Transparency International

Treaties of Nanking and Tianjin

Truth and reconciliation commissions

Tsunamis

Tunisia

Turkey

Tyrants. See also Dictatorships

Uganda

Ukraine

Unemployment

United Nations

Development Program

Security Council (UNSC)

United States

Agency for International Development (USAID)

Amateur Sports Act (1978)

Civil War in

Congress

Constitution

debt of

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

and Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

and Liberia

and Pakistan

small adversaries of

stimulus plan in (2009)

Supreme Court

taxation in

at time of independence

and Turkey

unfavorable views of

US P-4 program

Universities

Uprisings. See also Military: allowing uprisings; Protest; Revolutions/ rebellions; under Egypt

Ursinus

USAID. See United States: Agency for International Development

Van de Walle, Nicolas

Vatzakas, Theodorus

Velez, Lorenzo

Venezuela

Venice, Republic of

Vietnam War

Voters

gay voters

incentives for

middle-class swing voters

as nominal selectorate

soldiers as

voter initiatives

See also Elections

Vouchers

Vulgate

Walker, Edward

Wall Street

Wars war crimes See also Civil wars

Washington, George

Wayman, Robert P.

Wealth redistribution

Web sites. See also Internet

Weinberger, Caspar

Welch, Tom

Welfare state

Whales

Whistleblowers

Wikileaks

Wilson, Woodrow

Winning coalitions

large

purges of members

replacement of members

small

See also Essentials

Women

World Bank

World Cup Finals

World economy

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World War I

World War II

Wrong, Michela

WTO. See World Trade Organization

Yanukovych, Viktor

Yeltsin, Boris

Yemen

Yukos oil company

Yushchenko, Viktor

Zaire

Zambia

Zanzibar

Zardari, Asif Ali

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Zbiri, Tahar

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU)

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Through his New York–based consulting firm, he has served as an adviser to the US government on national security matters and to numerous corporations on questions related to forecasting and engineering outcomes in negotiations. Bueno de Mesquita received his doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan in 1971. From 2001–2002, he was President of the International Studies Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Bueno de Mesquita is the author of 16 books, more than 120 articles, and numerous pieces in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune , and International Herald Tribune among other publications .