Seymour Martin Lipset > Quotes

“Paradoxical as it may seem, collective bargaining is not losing ground in the United States because unions are less attractive, but unions are less attractive because collective bargaining is losing ground.”
― Seymour Martin Lipset, Unions in Transition: Entering the Second Century

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper ones for the society.”
― Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, Expanded Edition