Katherine Gehl, a businesswoman and trailblazing political innovator, and Michael Porter, a renowned business strategist, adopt a radical new strategy in their book The Politics Industry. They cleverly use business analysis techniques—as well as Porter’s renowned Five Forces framework—to demonstrate how the political system works just like any other industry that is subject to competition and how the duopoly has resulted in the disastrous outcomes we see today. Gehl and Porter discover the most effective lever for change using this competition lens—a method made up of a distinct set of options in two crucial areas: how our elections are conducted and how laws are made.
