Tag: political advisors

Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others?

The first of what seems likely to be many books about the June 2017 general election was released earlier this week. Betting the House, by Tim Ross and Tom McTague, tells the story of the election through contrasting accounts of the Conservative and Labour campaigns. There’s much more detail about the former, seemingly reflecting both the […]

November 9, 2017
The emergence of the ‘informal advisor’ in Washington politics

From This Town, by Mark Leibovich, pg 284. This is another example of a key theme of the book, albeit one explored in an exclusively gossipy way: the money to be made through working at the boundaries between institutional spheres, occasionally crossing them strategically and playing off this connection. It’s a nice arrangement, though, the […]

April 22, 2016

Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others?