What is political management?

Political management is a broad category encompassing a number of activities in professional politics. The field includes campaign management, advertisement creation/purchasing, grassroots politics, strategic research, issue advocacy, lobbying, fundraising, and polling. Some consider political management to be an applied form of political science.

Several universities offer graduate degrees in political management and applied politics. One of the most well known of these is The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University.
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Biden to Bosnia: Join Europe or die!

"Today, to be very blunt with you, I personally, and the leadership of my country is worried ... about the direction of your country and your future." ...

"The only real future is to join Europe," Biden said. "Right now you are off that path. You can follow this path to Europe or you can take an alternative path. You have done it before," Biden said, referring to the 1992-95 war.

"Failure to do so will ensure you remain among the poorest countries in Europe. At worst, you'll descend into ethnic chaos that defined your country for the better part of a decade."
The parliamentarians apparently cheered at the end of the speech, but given that Biden is already not exactly loved by ethnic Serbs who resent the strong anti-Serbian stance he took during the 1990s, I'm not sure that this kind of lecture is exactly productive.

What the vice president said is probably correct (and as Edward Joseph points out, he's probably the only one in a position to say it) but this is precisely the sort of thing you normally say in a closed-door meeting with a country's leaders, not in a public address before its parliament.

Biden's boss said last month that the United States has, in the past, "shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" toward Europe and vowed to change the tone. But Biden essentially telling Bosnia to follow his recommendations or continue to be known as a violent, poverty-stricken hellhole is American arrogance of near-Rumsfeldian levels and seems very much at odds with the administration's stated approach to foreign policy.

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Bosniaks Manipulations

According to the current session of Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of BiH has 28 members. Of the those numbers seven are Croats and one Serb, Mirjana Malic from SDP BiH. Although the RS has twice less representative in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina - 14, has twice more members of Bosniaks than the Bosnian Federation has Serbs. Of the 14 deputies from the RS, two Bosnians and 12 Serbs .
- The famous multiethnic FBiH end with number of Serbs, four times less in their delegation, than is the number of Bosnians in the small Serb republic delegation, - say delegates from the RS in the House of Peoples of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanic.

- Abolition of the entity voting automatically would reuslt in disproportion of RS and FBiH. This is an attempt to obtain the elimination of greater economic power of the common institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina in relation to the entities - said Prodanovic.
- No way to eliminate entity voting. Entity vote is an instrument that is given us in Dayton. - Kalabić said.

In Serbia, Biden agrees to disagree on Kosovo

Vice President Biden spoke frankly in Belgrade, Serbia, today about the need to incorporate southeast Europe into a Europe that is "whole, free and at peace." He said his presence there in the early days of President Obama's administration illustrates "our commitment to the region and our desire for a strong, new relationship between the United States and Serbia."

But, um, he and Serbian President Boris Tadic simply agreed to disagree on the independence of Kosovo, which Serbia has refused to recognize. The vice president will be there Thursday, including a visit to U.S. and NATO troops.

Biden called on Serbia, which helped to foment ethnic wars in the 1990s, to work toward becoming a "sovereign, democratic, multi-ethnic state with vibrant entities" and one that enjoys "peaceful, positive relations with all its neighbors." That would include Bosnia and Herzogovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

In return, Biden offered U.S. support for Serbian membership in the European Union, along with expanded security cooperation between Serbia, the U.S. and its allies. "We will use our influence, our energy, and our resources to promote Serbia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations," he said.

The Bosnian war claimed at least 100,000 lives, forced more than two million people to flee their homes as refugees and was marred by the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.