This is surely one of the most important questions to ponder in macro-political theory. ... Rival beliefs about society and civility are typically embodied in various ways of life and in different political systems. ... That power and authority are usually thought of as political, they often take the form of an idea of popular sovereignty with the people as the ultimate political authority. But it need not be exclusively political. Tocqueville's well-known study of Democracy in America primarily focuses on American society, not its governmental or political system. ...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Heller criticizes all levels of this complex in his wartime satire Catch- 22 through Milo Minderbinder, a businessman who excises no moral boundaries in his insane and fatal pursuit of profit. ... Like Yossarian, Milo is able to partially see through the political charades of the war. ... As such, his influence expands deeply into the political realm as well, embodying the entirety of the military-industrial complex. Milo's influence over the bureaucratic/ political realm reinforces every notion that money buys power, which Heller argues are the roots of all evil. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Politics he is an independent and he has no religion. ... Besides, "however flawed, the capitalist concept of self, the consumer concept of the self, it is a reigning American concept" (p386) and it is in this system that there is the freedom of self-expression and self-fulfillment in a market with no boundaries. ...

• Word Count: 2255
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School