{"id":6918,"date":"2026-04-13T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:12:27","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Management &#8211; Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/parliament-768x336.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Political Management\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                    \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/apply-online\/\">Apply Online<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/Political-Management-Promotional-Brochure.pdf\">Program Brochure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"clayton-h-riddell-graduate-program-in-political-management\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cPolitics are the essential profession of democracy, and the hardest of all professions to master.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6921\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover-512x393.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover-320x246.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2026\/04\/PoliticalManagement_BrochureCover.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Bruce Hutchison<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/Political-Management-Promotional-Brochure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fdcfc74e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/Political-Management-Promotional-Brochure.pdf\">Download program brochure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of images representing the foundation of Political Management at Carleton University.\" class=\"wp-image-4356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/PoliticalManagementatCarletonCollage-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Political managers are essential to democratic practice and to the institutions and apparatus of politics. They include political staff to cabinet ministers and elected representatives, strategists and tacticians for political parties, campaign managers and communication officers, policy advocates for civil society organizations, and grassroots movements. But there used to be no formal education available to them in the professional skills of applied politics in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Carleton University created Canada\u2019s first graduate program in political management: an intensive master\u2019s degree designed to provide a professional foundation for students who play or will play leadership roles in political offices, parties, non-governmental organizations, or firms that specialize in government relations, communications, or public opinion research. 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