September 2016, Year VIII, n. 9
Donatella Campus
Voter or groupie?
Telos: Politics follows market logic: a candidate is created (and sold) as a product and citizens are treated like consumers of any other commercial commodity. How true is this statement?
Donatella Campus: Obviously politics is more than this, but it’s true that we’ve imported certain commercial marketing techniques and now use the term political marketing. The idea is that a successful electoral campaign is based on identifying potential voters and their priorities ...more
Editorial
Not even Colin Firth’s dashing good looks would have turned a stuttering King George VI into a leader. Yet, with Logue’s help the King managed to make a moving radio address to the country after Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. Like a true leader. In his History of Germany since 1789 Golo Mann ...more
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