Research into major party behaviour in Britain from a political marketing perspective finds that political marketing is broad in scope and offers fresh analytical tools to explain how political organisations behave. It is nevertheless a marriage between political science and marketing. It borrows the core marketing concepts of product, sales and market-orientation, and techniques such as market intelligence, and adapts them to suit traditional tenets of political science to produce an integrated theoretical framework. A party which takes a product-orientation argues for what it stands for and believes in. A sales-orientated party focuses on selling its argument and product to voters. A market-orientated party designs its behaviour to provide voter satisfaction. Exploring these three orientations demonstrates that political marketing can be applied to a wide range of behaviour and suggests its potential to be applied to several areas of political studies.
Blogroll
- New book – Political marketing and management in the NZ 2020 election
- Palgrave Studies in Political Marketing and Management
- Political Management resource site
- Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics
- Political marketing and management conference 2021
- Vote Compass 2020 Media Reports