Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory
Bernard R. Berelson, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and William N. McPhee
q Perhaps the main impact of realistic research on contemporary politics has been to temper some of the requirements set by our traditional normative theory for the typical citizen.
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q "Out of all this literature of political observation and analysis, which is relatively new," says Max Beloff, "there has come to exist a picture in our minds of the political scene which differs very considerably from that familiar to us from the classical texts of democratic politics."