For what careers does GSPM prepare its political management students?
The best answer is provided by our alumni who work as lobbyists, campaigners, Congressional staff, and communications professionals. They manage issue campaigns, encourage grassroots participation in politics, and raise money for causes, candidates and organizations. They are pollsters, policy analysts and media consultants; they work for trade associations, interest groups, political action committees, political parties, and labor unions with some of our alumni serving as public officials in elected office. • How do the GSPM’s political programs differ from political science or public policy programs? The School’s curriculum focuses on applied or practical politics, not on theory-building. Public policy or public administration programs focus upon decision-making integral to the machinery of government, notably executive branch agencies. In contrast, students of political management concentrate upon the political processes that influence those agencies from outside the formal apparatu
