Politics is very much like marketing. Just as private businesses sell goods and services for money, political parties sell policies and proposed institutional changes for votes. Marketers use phrases like ‘market share’ or ‘audience share’ which are, in practice, not that different from ‘voter share’. Target demographics (or target audiences) are renamed constituencies, and advertising is renamed campaigning, but in the end, the fields have much in common.

Global Climate Strike on September 20, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland (Getty)