Day 1,187: polity

But, during the tumult of transition, relatively little attention was paid to the institutional design of the polity.

From the Cambridge English Corpus.

Artwork of the day 
Politipo
Alberto Biasi
Date: 1975
Style: Op Art
Genre: abstract

Word of the day 
polity: a society or state considered as a political unit

Quote of the day
“True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism