Strategy in Politics: Plotting Victory in a Democracy

Political managers—public office holders, legislative staff, campaign managers, policy advocates, and partisan communicators—are united by a common language, a set of shared skills, a strategic mindset, and, we can hope, an appreciation of their professional responsibilities to the institutions of democracy. While political managers are divided by vision and purpose, the best among them are simultaneously visionaries and manipulators, and they balance themselves precariously between these v...