#34Listening: Fill in the BlanksAcademic,CoreMedium
Defense of Politics
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In 1962, an English political [blank] by the name of Bernard Crick wrote a short and very polemical and [blank] little book called In Defense of Politics, and by politics, Crick meant a distinctive type of human activity where [blank] among groups are adjudicated by discussion, persuasion, and debate rather than by force or by [blank] .
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In 1962, an English political scientist and journalist by the name of Bernard Crick wrote a short and very polemical and influential little book called In Defense of Politics, and by politics, Crick meant a distinctive type of human activity where conflicts of interests among groups are adjudicated by discussion, persuasion, and debate rather than by force or by fright .
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