The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

‘It’s a beautifully insightful search for the solutions to our dysfunctional system. It navigates through the wreckage of the past, unravels the knot of the present, and provides solutions for the future.’ - Ashton Kutcher

Our political system has become big business - and business is booming - yet solutions to big problems seem impossible.

In The Politics Industry, leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radically different approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis, and Porter’s distinctive Five Forces framework, to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does. Even more importantly, they argue that the political system can be changed, just as industries can be changed, by adopting a new and different strategy, a clear set of choices of things to do and not do, in four key areas: the election process, the legislative ‘machinery,’ the role of money, and the opening up of competition. The authors focus only on those solutions that are powerful and capable of having a significant impact, as well as achievable within a short period.

The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open any thinking citizen’s eyes to the real dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide powerful and practicable solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all.