Political Marketing: A Conceptual framework

Sudha Venu Menon

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The article presents a broad overview of the concept of political marketing and its significance in the contemporary era of information revolution and democratic resurgence. The article provides meaning, definition and various dimensions of political marketing as a concept and method and differentiates it from mainstream marketing practices. The article also attempts to analyze the origin and development of the concept in different political and social contexts and its usage as a powerful instrument in election campaigning and policy making. The article explains the eight main functions of political marketing including product function, distribution function, cost function, communication function, new management function, fund raising function, parallel campaign management function and internal cohesion management function. The article also explains how the functions of political marketing are effectively applied on the electoral market and government markets. The article finally examines the success and failure of political marketing in creating public opinion in favor of the party. Here examples are taken from different countries including both democratic and non-democratic countries.

Keywords: Political marketing; political; election; campaign; political communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ict, nep-mkt and nep-pol
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