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The report says the problems of the United States in the 1960s stemmed from the "impulse of democracy ... to make government less powerful and more active, to increase its functions, and to decrease its authority" and concludes that these demands are contradictory. The impulse for the undermining of
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The report outlines that in 1960s Western Europe the governments are "overloaded with participants and demands" which the highly bureaucratic political systems are unable to handle, thus rendering their societies ungovernable. It points to a political decision made by France that was made in
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programs. To remedy this condition, "balance to be restored between governmental activity and governmental authority." The effects of this "excess of democracy" if not fixed are said to be an inability to maintain international trade, balanced budgets, and "hegemonic power" in the world.
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The vitality of democracy in the United States in the 1960s produced a substantial increase in governmental activity and a substantial decrease in governmental authority.
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has often cited the report as an example of the type of hostility towards popular democracy and tactics for suppressing it that the "
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Critics have pointed out that many members of the Trilateral Commission subsequently had roles in the
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of the state capitalist ruling elite" tend to favor, as opposed to the reactionary wing.
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legitimacy was said to come primarily from the "new activism" and an adversarial
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Crozier, Michel; Huntington, Samuel P.; Joji, Watanuki (1975).
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The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
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The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies
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restated the conclusions of the report in an op-ed for the
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Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
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and have been influenced by the report. Specifically,
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Index


Michel Crozier
Samuel P. Huntington
Joji Watanuki
New York University Press
Trilateral Commission
ISBN
978-0-8147-1365-5
Michel Crozier
Samuel P. Huntington
Joji Watanuki
Trilateral Commission
New York University Press
United States
Europe
Japan
democracy
Samuel P. Huntington
news media
Great Society
Carter Administration
Zbigniew Brzezinski
St. Petersburg Times
Noam Chomsky
'liberal' wing
Criticism of democracy
Political Order in Changing Societies
The Limits to Growth
Powell Memorandum
Trilateral Commission

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