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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Edward C. Banfield

Born: November 19, 1916
Died: September 30, 1999 (aged 82)
Bio: Edward Christie Banfield was an American political scientist, best known as the author of The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, and The Unheavenly City.
Known for:
- The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958)
- The unheavenly city revisited (1974)
- Political Influence (1961)
- Here the People Rule: Selected Essays (1985)






