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Exhibit 1162

The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America

Exhibit 1162 ยท Academic book (primary theory text)

The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America

Argues that the scope of a conflict decides its outcome, that the pressure system recruits a narrow, upper-status slice of the public, and that organization is a mobilization of bias. Full text NOT read: the only scans found are borrow-only. Known through study notes (adambrown.info) and encyclopedia entries that attribute "The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent" to p. 35; no exact wording was read in the book, so no quote is registered.

Source
E. E. Schattschneider, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Date
1960
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://archive.org/details/semisovereignpeo00scha
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Note
Standing note: foundational, concept not an effect size; the "upper-class bias" claim comes from mid-century U.S. conditions and needs checking against later work (for example Baumgartner et al. 2009). Replace with the borrowed or library text before any quote is used. Never-quote until read.

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