(Photo by Joel Cairo for the Daily News)
The New York Daily News recently highlighted the Fordham University Masters in Elections and Campaign Management, one of the few programs in the country that trains people to become professional campaign managers.
“They learn what we know
about voting behavior and voter psychology and political institutions from an
academic point of view,” Fordham
professor Costas Panagopoulos told the Daily News.
“Political campaigns have gotten increasingly
professionalized over the past few decades, so you need people with specialized
skills to be able to manage them effectively,” Panagopoulos said. “We’re
talking about an industry that spends tens of billions of dollars, and to
allocate those resources efficiently and effectively requires people with
specialized training.”
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