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The fact that one topic can catch the public’s fancy for certain periods of time, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, is one of the basic principles that seems to be part of public life of a nation. Like the rising crest of a wave, public debate is concentrated on one topic of general concern to such an extent that within a short period of time the urgent need for political action inevitably arises.
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Späth, L. (1986). Exhausted Energy. In: Facing the Future. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71608-9_1
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