... the voter in a large democracy has so little sense of power that he often does not think it worth while to use his vote. ... In practice, all that he can do, as a rule, is to vote for one or other of two men, whose programmes may not interest him, and may differ very little, and who, he knows, may with impunity abandon their programmes as soon as they are elected.
Source: Power, 1938.
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