The Performance of American Government: Checks and MinusesFree Press, 1972 - 372 pages |
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... citizens could hope to seize the state and use it for their own purposes and to the disadvantage of their fellow citizens . The small state , in other words , strengthened rather than weakened the parochiality of affection by seeming to ...
... citizens could hope to seize the state and use it for their own purposes and to the disadvantage of their fellow citizens . The small state , in other words , strengthened rather than weakened the parochiality of affection by seeming to ...
Page 40
... citizens have very different political attitudes and ideas from the mass of members and unaffiliated citizens . These active citizens , generally drawn from the better educated and more affluent sections of society , pluralist theory ...
... citizens have very different political attitudes and ideas from the mass of members and unaffiliated citizens . These active citizens , generally drawn from the better educated and more affluent sections of society , pluralist theory ...
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... citizens at large . The distinction between elites and masses , even the assertion that " democracy is a choice between competing elites , " does not disturb pluralists ; the power of elites is the guarantee that constitutional norms ...
... citizens at large . The distinction between elites and masses , even the assertion that " democracy is a choice between competing elites , " does not disturb pluralists ; the power of elites is the guarantee that constitutional norms ...
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