POLITICAL SCIENCE IN A NUTSHELL THIRTY THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND POLITICAL SCIENCE By Bradley W. Rasch. Interested in Politics or Political Science and have some difficulty understanding it? This book explains the different Political Systems in the world, and carefully details thirty Political terms you should know. In short, reading this book allows you to become literate in Political Science. This book will allow you to begin to understand modern Politics and to take part in the important debates of our time from a knowledgeable base. The book also contains thirty questions you should ask, and be able to answer, about the state of Politics today. The reader will find this book down-to-earth, entertaining, and free of jargon. It will send you on a journey towards not only understanding those Sunday News-Talk shows, but to being able to make points just as, or more valuable than, those Sunday morning "talking heads."