Readings on Policy
Aug. 20th, 2015 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogMy computer has been randomly disconnecting from the internet. And just now, I realized that the clock on the computer was four hours slow. Surprise! It's eleven o' clock, not seven. No wonder I'm tired. And here I thought I still had time to finish reading, play some games, and talk to Miriam online....
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"When it comes to politics, noted Schattschneider more
than fifty years ago, “an amazingly large number of people
do not seem to know very much about what is going on.”
Oh, how true that is!
I'm really looking forward to reading E. E. Schattschneider's "The Semisovereign People." I ordered it today for my poli-sci class. It contains another phrase, one that I'd heard before but didn't know the origin of:
"The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent."
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"When it comes to politics, noted Schattschneider more
than fifty years ago, “an amazingly large number of people
do not seem to know very much about what is going on.”
Oh, how true that is!
I'm really looking forward to reading E. E. Schattschneider's "The Semisovereign People." I ordered it today for my poli-sci class. It contains another phrase, one that I'd heard before but didn't know the origin of:
"The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent."
