Political society depends on trust and some degree of fellow feeling. (religion-online.org)
A society which gives too much power to political society undermines its own vitality. (faith.org.uk)
The political expression of this complex is a technical - regulative conception of political society in which the state is seen as an essentially neutral arbiter among the contending interest groups, whose competition and countervailing pressures are assumed to guarantee the interest of all. (religion-online.org)