Conflict and Control: Challenge to Legitimacy of Modern Governments

Attempts to account for the relative stability of the modern police state, asks if democracy is even a possibility in developing countries, and examines the possibility for civil liberties in the totalitarian state.

′This interdisciplinary collection of essays is a useful contribution to the increasingly rich discussion of legitimacy which in recent years has drawn much attention from social scientists and political theorists.′ -- Perspective, Vol 9, No 2, March 1980