Constitution crosswords3/19/2023 ![]() The two parties have optimized the legislative and election processes to their benefit by exploiting features of the Constitution that I see as flaws. When the public’s interests and the private interests of the two parties and their allies conflict, passing legislation that is in the public interest is not on the parties’ agenda. They keep the money spigot open and benefit from favorable legislation and lax regulatory oversight by regulators who have to be approved by Congress. Well-heeled, special interests and their fellow travelers are the parties’ most important suppliers and customers. One assumes the politics industry’s major customers are voters. Working together over the last few decades the two parties have cemented partnerships with their most important suppliers/customers to their mutual benefit. Who are the duopoly’s customers and suppliers? Unlike other private sector industries, in the politics industry suppliers and customers are largely the same organizations and individuals. He and Gehl apply it to an analysis of the politics industry where the parties’ goal is to strengthen and perpetuate their hold on the levers of government. ![]() Porter’s model is usually used by for-profit business to find more profitable niches within their industries. ![]() The model suggests success of firms in a given industry and the whole industry is determined by the interplay of five forces the power of customers and suppliers relative to the power of organizations in the industry, the threat of entry of new competitors, the threat of substitutes for the industry’s goods or services, and intra-industry rivalry. His Five Forces model is standard stuff in most organizational strategy courses as an industry analysis tool. Porter might be familiar to those who have studied organizational strategy. That article was based upon observing the political scene and insights from a book by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. Recently I wrote in this space about the threat to democracy posed by the politics industry duopoly and how the two parties (which are private, self-interested organizations) have captured government at both state and federal levels. Domain menu for The Enterprise-Tocsin (main) ![]()
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