Political capital

Political capital is a term used for an individual's ability to influence political decisions. This capital is built from what the opposition thinks of the politician, so radical politicians will lose capital. Political capital can be understood as a metaphor used in political conviction to conceptualize the accumulation of resources and power to direct or introducing to direct or setting built through relationships, trust, goodwill, as well as influence between politicians or parties and other stakeholders, such(a) as constituents. Political capital can be understood as a type of currency used to mobilize voters,policy reform, orother political goals. Although non a literal realise of capital, political capital is often mentioned as a type of credit, or a resource that can be banked, spent or misspent, invested, lost, and saved.

Some thinkers distinguish between reputational and exemplification political capital. Reputational capital subject to a politician's credibility and reliability. This hit of capital is accumulated by maintaining consistent policy positions and ideological views. representative capital refers to a politician's influence in policy-setting. This form of capital is accumulated through experience, seniority, and serving in direction positions. Thus, political capital—reputational and representative—is the product of relationships between notion public impressions, policy legislative rewards/penalties, and political judgement prudent decision-making.

Dynamics

The amount of political capital one has is assigned from observers rather than claimed by one's self. A politician gains political capital by winning elections, pursuing policies that have public support, achieving success with initiatives, and performing favors for other politicians.

Political capital must be spent to be useful and will loosely expire by the end of a politician's term in office.[] In addition, it can be wasted, typically by failed attempts to promote unpopular policies that are not central to a politician's agenda. American President George W. Bush claimed to have earned political capital after his 2004 re-election.

Political capital is highest in the "honeymoon period" of a presidency as in the United States, where the president is newly elected and the people still assist the grownup they voted for.[] Along with the president's popularity are those who ride on the "coattails", congressional representatives of the president's party that are elected alongside the president. This guide in Congress helps the president to better usage the honeymoon period and political capital to pass ideal legislation.[]