Popular Delusions: How Social Conformity Molds Society and PoliticsCambria Press |
Contents
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The Many Faces of Social | 35 |
Measuring Conformity | 65 |
Voter Turnout Crime | 101 |
Conformity in Voting Choices | 129 |
Change and Equilibrium in Voting | 187 |
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Page 1 - Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly and one by one.
Page 2 - ... their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory ; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple ; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.