Book description
You may be OK with standard stuff like Conservatism and Democracy,
but do you really know what Patrimonialism is? And what about
Oligarchy? Anarcho-syndicalism? Politics is, we are willing to bet,
the most passionately argued-over subject matter, and yet how many of
us flounder around in confrontational debates because we have no grip
on political theory, just a vague notion that they are all out to get
us? 30-Second Politics will help dispel this fog mistrust and
paranoia. It challenges political theorists of all colors to come up
with no-frill, no-spin, tell-it-like-it-is explanations of the 50 most
important political -isms, -archies, and -ocracies that have pertained
since the time of Periclean Athens. At no public expense, the book
explains each political theory in nothing more than two pages, 300
words, and some propaganda-style imagery, for we all know that a
picture opportunity is worth a thousand words of dull interview.
