Politics Is for Power

Why this matters here

Hersh’s Politics Is for Power criticizes “political hobbyism” and argues that real power requires organized, local, relational work rather than consuming news and metrics as a spectator sport. When Incentives Become the Moral Language cites campaign and civic metrics—fundraising, turnout models, contact rates, ad performance—as numbers that can stand in for argued representation. Hersh diagnoses how people engage politics; the book asks when measurable momentum displaces the question of what representation requires.