Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System - Real Time Economics - WSJ
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The U.S. political system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly the way the two main parties designed it. That’s the conclusion of a new Harvard Business School study.
New Research Exposes Why Competition in U.S. Politics Industry is Failing America - News - Harvard Business School
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“The politics industry is a classic duopoly with two dominant competitors. The parties focus on serving their partisan supporters and special interests, not the average voter, ” said Katherine Gehl, a former CEO, who has also worked in government and is now dedicated to driving political innovation and reform. “This report is not about adding to the depressing national dialog about politics, but about how to understand how the political system actually works and change it through reforms that will matter.”
“I was drawn to analyze the U.S. political system as an industry when our research found that our political system is the biggest impediment to U.S. competitiveness,” said Harvard’s Porter, who is based at Harvard Business School and co-chair of the School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project. “Our dysfunctional political outcomes are a competition problem. Politics is an industry that sets its own rules. Over time, it has shaped the nature of competition to advance the interests of political parties and their industry allies rather than serve the public interest.”