...interests arouses a psychology of conflict which produces obstructive, fictitious and irrelevant values. The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts...protest than to apply social energy to the abolition of the recurrent sources of strain in society. This redefinition of the problem of politics may be called...

...interests arouses a psychology of conflict which produces obstructive, fictitious and irrelevant values. The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts...protest than to apply social energy to the abolition of the recurrent sources of strain in society. 46 Yet Lasswell did not accept any or all means of obviating...

...interests arouses a psychology of conflict which produces obstructive, fictitious, and irrelevant values. The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts than to prevent them; less to serve as a safely valve for social protest than to apply social energy to the abolition of recurrent sources of...

...of Charles E. Merriam (see Karl, 1974), it was explicitly articulated by Lasswell as early as 1930: "The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts...social protest than to apply social energy to the 230 abolition of recurrent sources of strain in society." This redefinition of politics, Lasswell continued,...

...contented and satisfied citizens at every level" (Lane 1959, 157). In such a euphoric situation, "... the problem of politics is less to solve conflicts than to prevent them" (Lasswell, cited by Kariel), and "it is far less important to worry about the distribution of power...

...interests arouses a psychology of conflict which produces obstructive, fictitious and irrelevant values. The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts...to the abolition of recurrent sources of strain in society.18 This view is echoed strongly in John Howard's oft-stated commitment of governing for the...