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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Reagan, Yeltsin, and the Strategy of Political Campaigning
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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
Jul 23, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU and the Hoover Institute, talks about the political economy of political campaigns and his forthcoming book, The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin. He talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the different strategies politicians pursue in attracting support from voters and party delegates, the persistence of negative campaigning, the cost to politicians of sticking to their principles and how the political choices of Reagan and Yeltsin intersected to end the Cold War and dissolve the Soviet Union.
Released:
Jul 23, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
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