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Opinion and Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Alfred Sauvy

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This article is concerned with the general relations between power and informed public opinion in a Western democracy. It is based mainly on examples taken from France, where the separation between power and public opinion seems the sharpest, but is more or less applicable to all countries having the same political system. Parallel phenomena can be observed in most of the Western democracies, each of which could provide illustrations as striking as those the author has singled out.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 4 , Issue 15 , September 1956 , pp. 15 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © 1956 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)