Politics today is largely about the art of messaging to influence the public, but the mathematical theory of messaging -- information and communication theory -- can turn this art into a precise analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, that enables us to gain retrospective understandings of past political events and to make forward-looking future predictions.

翻译：当今政治在很大程度上是关于通过信息传递影响公众的艺术，但信息传递的数学理论——信息与通信理论——可将这一艺术转化为精确的定性与定量分析，使我们既能获得对过往政治事件的回溯性理解，也能进行前瞻性的未来预测。