ABSTRACT
It is a major theme of this essay that the macro approach to political education is unsound in providing a sociologically erroneous account of how the democratic citizen can and does function most actively and satisfactorily (to himself) within the body politic. The political system comprehends more than congressional and parliamentary institutions, and the citizen's involvement with these national institutions of government is more likely to be mediated through micro-institutions of various kinds, than directly through the franchise or by individual communication with members of the executive or the legislature. This point and its educational implications will be elaborated in Chapter 6.
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