ordinary people but as the result of unobservable forces and covert conflict working to prevent their expression of scepticism and dispute. This would support the view that within the political organizations of Middlesborough there was a "mobilization of bias". When distribution of the land was decided by the court, it most often went to the highest bidder. The Company held obvious power in its economic advantage leaving no doubt to anyone, including the courts, who would win out. By basing ownership rights on economic capabilities, challenge on behalf of the mountaineers was made scarce and considered a futile effort. In this way the issue of Company ownership was 'organized in' and the people's land claims were 'organized out'. The second dimension therefore recognizes elite accommodation occurring in a system which pluralists claim to be 'open'. It is viewed as a system where inequalities are created and maintained by allowing the dominant class to determine the decision-making agenda, therefore establishing the quiescence of the subordinated. The first dimension assumes that lack of overt conflict means the consensus of the mountaineers to their land loss, and the second would have assumed consensus if there were no observable overt or covert conflict, but still another dimension is essential to get to the actual root of consensus. The third dimension considers the possibility of latent conflict where the people's wants and beliefs are unkowingly shaped to establish a consensus to that which is contrary to their interests, but no...
