Political Campaign Management

Gender Equality: 7 Questions with Founders of Smash Strategies

Oct 30, 2019 by Alicia Barry

Gender equality in the political sphere with Susan Markham and Stephenie Foster

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Campaign Management: Managing Up and Down in Politics

Sep 09, 2019 by Joe Fuld (he/him)

Campaign Management Should Be a Two-Way Street 

campaign management done right means everyone wins. When I first started to work in politics and was a campaign staffer, running campaigns, I learned how important managing up was. 

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Graduate School of Political Management: Is It Worth It?

Jan 09, 2014 by The Campaign Workshop

Graduate School of Political Management or School of Life? Do you need grad school to run a political campaign? 

Is Graduate School of Political Management worth it? In a word: Maybe. It depends on what your goals are, like just about everything else in life. There are ever increasing opportunities to get master’s degrees in non-traditional ways and, depending on what you want to do with this degree, it may make sense to devote the time and resources to school. Campaign management is a real profession, don’t let the ripped jeans and hoodies fool you. Campaign managers are hard working, organized, multi-tasking, savvy professionals (at least the good ones are) and those are skills honed with experience and learning. If you are interested in a career in research, data, political theory and history, then by all means, go to campaign management school. But, in my opinion, if you want campaign management for your career, you can get the experience you need to become a successful campaign manager by actually working on campaigns.

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