Large organisations strive for political compromises with the state and with each other, excluding the public sphere whenever possible. But at the same time the large organisations must assure themselves of at least plebiscitary support from the mass of the population through an apparent display of openness.

Habermas, Jürgen: the structural transformation of the public sphere (1962)

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