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There was again no open opposition, nothing that Moses’ supporters could seize on as evidence of Tammany opposition to reform; instead, there was again stalling and obfuscation and confusion—and, for Bob Moses, defeat.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Schneider and Sagan (2005) argue that complex nonequilibriumthermodynamic systems—societies, political systems, ecosystems, and economies—share a universal feature; they regress to earlier, more hierarchical, less complex and less open forms of organization under conditions of environmental stress such as plagues, wars and depressions. This
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I think the scale of clandestine government activities is a pretty good measure of the popular dissidence and activism in a country—and clandestine activities shot way up during the Reagan period. That tells you something right there about popular “empowerment”: it’s a reflection of people’s power that the government was forced underground. That’s
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
qualquer dimensão da política está ligada à existência real ou à possibilidade da emergência de inúmeras formas de interação e de disputa entre indivíduos ou grupos
Gabriela Prioli • Política é para todos (Nova edição) (Portuguese Edition)
Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
Parties with more alternatives and lower needs have the most power.
Jason Barron • The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness
Sensing that the price of failure is permanent marginalization, partisans on each side are girding for a crisis in which they are ready to break any guardrails to prevail. Everything is now on the table: gerrymandering, tilting election rules, subpoenas, impeachments, nuking the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, and—in extremis—mobilizing mobs
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