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If the decisions to be made are to embody the needs of those affected by them, the latter must have major responsibility for their making.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “If the decisions to be made are to embody the needs of those affected by them, the latter must have major responsibility…”
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Laski asserts that those affected by decisions must have a role in making them.
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