Participation in Civil Society

Kornhauser, like other postwar mass society theorists, tried to specify the social conditions that sustain liberal democratic institutions (Kornhauser 7). He looked for the source of strength and the weaknesses in democratic political systems, looking for social structure. His central argument was that, since society is a mass society, it will be vulnerable to political movements which are destructive to liberal democratic institutions. Kornhauser defined a mass society as a society in which a mass of individuals are related to each other only through their relationship to a common authority, such as t

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