Political Technology is a ubiquitous Russian term, little known in the West. It is the operating code of Russian politics; and has metastasized to take over other areas – history, religion, foreign relations. It produces the propaganda that has helped produce the war against Ukraine. Properly defined, as the ‘supply-side engineering of the political system for partisan advantage’, the rest of the world has political technology too. Spin doctors and political consultants are now also political engineers. Russia has theatre politics, where everyone is playing a part. The USA has a different virtual reality of Political Action Committees, dark money, think-tanks dressing up private interest as public purpose, astroturfing and alternative reality media. Different national political technologies are increasingly globalized and intertwined. Russian propaganda points against Ukraine are now replayed in MAGA media; Hungarian political technologists advise the Republican Party under the banner principle ‘you only have to win one election’. This book explains all of these interactions and common patterns. See also the additional materials here. | 
