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Elmer Eric Schattschneider Quotes

1892–1971 United States

Elmer Eric Schattschneider (August 11, 1892 – March 4, 1971) was an American political scientist.

United States
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It is the losers in intrabusiness conflict who seek redress from public authority. The dominant business interests resist appeals to the government. The role of the government as the patron of the defeated private interest sheds light on its function as the critic of private power relations.

The Semisovereign People (1960)

What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.

Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969)

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