The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America

About this book

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.