Harold J. Laski: “It is to be remembered that even a decision to acquiesce is a…”

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It is to be remembered that even a decision to acquiesce is a decision, that what shapes the substance of authority is what it encounters.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes that even acquiescence is a form of decision-making that shapes authority.

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