ABSTRACT
The persons active in politics make demands for values on the basis of various expectations. Patterns of attention, sentiment, interest, loyalty, and faith are among the perspectives of political action. From the conception of value in terms of an act of valuing, it follows that values are conflicting, facilitative, or compatible according as the acts of valuation are such. Conflict and facilitation of values are not deducible from incompatibilities or consonance of symbolizations, but depend on the relations of the acts in which the valuations consist. The members of a demand aggregate need be engaged in no interactions with one another, so far as the definition is concerned. Sameness of demand requires, however, that the persons in the aggregate not only demand the same value, but demand it for the same person or persons. A sentiment aggregate may be included within a demand aggregate, therefore, and consists of persons with a certain degree of emotional involvement in the demand.
