Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER THREE

Notes on the New Politics

THE OBJECTIVE REALITIES to which American politics must address itself have been changing drastically in the last fifteen years or so:

• in population structure;
• in social and political structure;
• in respect to the power centers in American society;
• and in the international environment.

As a result, fundamental assumptions accepted as near axioms in both our domestic and our foreign policies are becoming increasingly untenable.

The issues around which American politics is tending to organize itself will increasingly be both new and different from those of the last half-century. Long-accepted issues, or at ...