How to Think about Politics

It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by politics. Rather than getting caught up in the swirl of day-to-day politics, Peter Allen suggests that we return to the fundamentals and cultivate a set of tools and perspectives to help us interpret events. This book is his concise and accessible guide on how to do so. Mixing contemporary political science research with real-life examples, the book focuses on five ideas that can help readers to understand political events in a new way. A surprising discussion of key political ideas, this book offers new tools for thinking about politics and asking political questions to help readers interrogate their own political choices.