Strategies of Power. When more and more people believe that politics is being conducted over their heads and is beyond their influence, is this a populist fallacy? Or is the impression of citizens feeling disempowered possibly accurate? As explosive as these questions are, constitutional lawyer Hans Herbert von Arnim approaches his system diagnosis in an analytical and sober manner. He demonstrates that party rule has reached a new quality. Behind the democratic facade, the parties have installed a power apparatus that mocks popular sovereignty and exhibits absolutist traits. Arnim reveals the means and methods the political class employs to reshape the rules to their own advantage. It is urgently necessary to effectively limit party rule and arbitrariness!.