books.google.co.uk - In this illuminating celebration of the political world, Bernard Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is messy and complex,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/In_Defense_of_Politics.html?id=IM3puBvwf9EC&q=survival&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIn Defense of Politics