Again, the possession of power is always connected with the desire to perpetuate it, and also with a sensitive jealousy of all measures having a tendency to diminish its controlling effectiveness, or to lessen the value of the units constituting that power.
Jacobs reflects on the relationship between power and the desire to maintain it within political structures.
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