>I quite agree. The particulars on the book are as follows:
>
> Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, Joji Watanuki
> 1975 The crisis of democracy : report on the governability
> of democracies to the Trilateral Commission
> New York University Press.
>
>Chomsky used to make fun of Huntington's (former) title at Harvard as
>"Professor of the Science of Government."
That's where the term comes from as far as Chomsky is concerned - and same with Robert McChesney (see p288 in his concluding chapter of *Rich Media Poor Democracy*, Uni of Illinois Press: Chicago 1999 - where, incidentally, our esteemed listmaster, 'perceptive social critic' that he is, comes in for some sympathetic critique on p 295.)
Good book, too! It's perched next to my *Wall St* and assorted Perelmans on a rapidly growing shelf of recent Yanqui economic and democratic critique - my fave genre just now. All very accessible, and particularly impressive at sensitively leading the reader from established common sense and values to the radical critiques immanent there-in. Aye, there's hope yet.
Talking of which: Good to see the third worlders asserting themselves in the WTO 'talks', too (some Africans reckon 'lectures' might have been a better word). A wash-out, I'm told. Democracy and equity made up a few yards both inside and outside the marble halls this week, eh?
Cheers, Rob.