ABSTRACT
One of the most important questions of political life - perhaps the most important of all — is that of the nature, extent and strength of the relationship between people and government, between the rulers and the ruled. Comparative government analysis is devoted to discovering the many ways in which this relationship does take place, while, by and large, works on political theory are devoted to the examination of the manner in which it should be established. The institutions and the processes which have been described in the previous chapters can thus be regarded as efforts at providing a solution to the question of the link between people and government.
