"This volume is some sort the sequel to a book on the problem of sovereignty which I published in March, 1917"--Preface.

This analysis of the concept of authority in Western society constitutes a central work in political sociology and a fundamental critique of the process of mode

A study of the nature of authority and the character of the state. It draws on political philosophy, jurisprudence and public choice theory, to explain and eval

As a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, this volume, originally published in 1919, expands Laski's pluralist doctrine of the state, (using France