The Dictator's Handbook

I like the ‘grand unified theory of politics' feeling that this gives. Most political theories treat democracy and monarchy as apples and oranges, there are separate approaches to describe each with some discontinuity at an unspecified point in the middle. Here, the author applies their ideas to democracy and monarchy on the same footing and views them as either end of a spectrum. Despite the elegance of this approach, it seems a bit reductionistic. Politics is a very difficult subject to nail down.

Recommended for anyone interested in political theory