control the government, these opinions must not be controlled by the government." Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book, Manufacturing Consent (1988), advanced a propaganda model for the news media in the United States in which coverage of current events was skewed by corporations and the state in order to manufacture the consent of the governed. See also Bay'ah Consent of the Networked (2012) Mandate (politics) Manufacturing Consent (1988) Nicholas of Cusa (quote) Popular sovereignty Public policy Rule of law Self determination Self-governance Social choice theory Social contract References Further reading John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, chapter 8 section 95 (1690) Etienne de La Boétie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude David Hume, Of the Original Contract Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 (in which he argues, against a theory of the consent of the governed, in favour of a theory of the lack of explicit rebellion; following a Popperian view on falsifiability, Pettit considers that as consent of the governed is always implicitly supposed, thus trapping the social contract in a vicious circle, it should be replaced by the lack of explicit rebellion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right (1762) Accountability Concepts in ethics Concepts in political philosophy Concepts in social philosophy Concepts in the philosophy of history Consent History of political thought Intellectual history Liberalism Philosophy of social science Political philosophy Political science theories Popular sovereignty Progressivism Secularism Social concepts