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Research Shows Immigrant Communities Get Less Government Funding

The Horizons Tracker

When Harold Laswell, a notable American political scientist, published his influential work “Politics: Who Gets What, When, How” in 1936, he could not have anticipated that the title would become a popular definition of politics among the general public, which has endured until now.

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Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

Harvard Business Review

.” Whether you participate in them or not, politics have a big influence on what happens to you, your projects, and your team, so it’s hard to be indifferent to them. Interpersonal influence : a convincing ability to affect how and what other people think. And as the old saying goes, “contacts mean contracts.”