Reconciling marketing with political science: Theories of political marketing
Open Access
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Marketing Management
- Vol. 13 (7) , 651-663
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.1997.9964502
Abstract
This paper has two broad aims: to trace the theoretical development of political marketing and then demonstrate how these concepts can be used in the analysis of election campaigns. Electioneering is not the sole manifestation of marketing in politics but it is the most obvious, a point underlined by recent work addressing the prominent role now played by political marketing in a parliamentary democracy like Britain. Whilst much of this material understandably concentrates on the once neglected work of campaign practitioners, the more theoretical explorations of the intersection between marketing and politics have tended to appear in management journals. This paper intends to explore the relationship from a political science perspective.Keywords
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