num_pages: 147
description: This book started out to be an attempt to formulate a theory of political organization. While the emphasis has shifted somewhat in the course of the writing, it is still a book about political organization, an attempt to work out a theory about the relation between organization and conflict, the relation between political organization and democracy, and the organizational alternatives open to the American people. The thesis is that we shall never understand politics unless we know what the struggle is about. The contagiousness of conflict; The scope and bias of the pressure system; Whose game do we play?; The displacement of conflicts; The nationalization of a case study in the changing dimensions of politics; The limits of the political nonvoting as a case study in the scope of political conflict; What does change look like?; The semisovereign people.
language: English
title: The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
titlecomplete: The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America
genres: Politics, Academic, Political Science, Nonfiction, School, American History, History
ratings_count: 224
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston