books.google.com - Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedoma nd order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is necessarily imperfect, messy anmd complex, yet his book defends it against htose...http://books.google.com/books/about/In_Defence_of_Politics.html?id=tASVLbC0Q5cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIn Defence of Politics