Given that the author doesn't use the word anywhere else (apart from the title of the book that shares this article's title) I suspect the author is fully aware

Given that the author doesn't use the word anywhere else (apart from the title of the book that shares this article's title) I suspect the author is fully aware of this. Might be worth pointing out the word politics is, for many, a pejorative. In that worldview, this statement is more akin to "Good thievery" or "Good fraud" in which the implication is obvious that it is describing ways of being better at that act, not that you are working towards any moral aims. But yes, the word "Good" is clearly intended as poetic counterpoint to the "Bad" in behaviour.