The philosophical underpinning of this book is that all organizations need to be aware of their stakeholders (shareholders) and know how to communicate with and manage them. Using a number of contemporary case studies both as examples and employing vignettes to outline core areas of theory, the text attempts to put together a number of tools to gauge and measure contemporary government and political activity. Its central argument is that marketing can be applied equally to societal life as it can to the commercial market.