Word: vetogroup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their leadership is heavy with inside-dopesters. Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually for negative, not positive, ends. "By their very nature," says Riesman, "the veto groups exist as defense groups, not as leadership groups." Each group has "a power to stop things conceivably inimical to its interests, and, within far narrower limits, a power...
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