30-Second Politics
Subtitle: The 50 most thought-provoking theories in politics, each explained in half a minute
By: editor Steven L. Taylor
Publisher: Metro Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781435133341
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Political science
Other titles: Thirty second politics
Description: You may be OK with standard stuff like Republicanism and Democracy, but do you really know what Neocon 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 of 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.
Notes: "This 2011 edition published by Metro Books by arrangement with Ivy Press"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Monarchy; title: Despotism; title: Aristocracy; title: profile: Aristotle; title: Oligarchy; title: Democracy; title: Popular Sovereignty; title: Authoritarianism; title: Class Conflict; title: One-Party Rule; title: Fascism; title: profile: Benito Mussolini; title: Nazism; title: Totalitarianism; title: Patrimonialism; title: Praetorianism; title: Theocracy; title: Anarchism; title: Representative Democracy; title: Majoritarianism; title: Proportional Representation; title: Classical Liberalism; title: profile: John Locke; title: Conservatism; title: Liberalism; title: Libertarianism; title: Social Democracy; title: Legislative Power; title: Executive Power; title: Judicial Power; title: Separation of Powers; title: profile: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; title: Checks and Balances; title: Parliamentary Democracy; title: Federalism; title: Unitary State; title: Communism; title: Marxism; title: profile: Karl Marx; title: Leninism; title: Maoism; title: Anarcho-Syndicalism; title: Capitalism; title: Socialism; title: Globalization; title: Keynesianism; title: Mercantilism; title: Neoliberalism; title: profile: Ayn Rand; title: Objectivism; title: Realism; title: profile: Hans Morgenthau; title: Imperialism; title: Neoconservatism; title: Nationalism; title: Environmentalism; title: Constructivism.