The mechanisms of party rule and parliamentary procedures lead to an exclusion of social conflicts from political processes and to pacification of the inherent antagonism within society by manipulation.
Naturalized as a German in 1955, Agnoli did his doctorate in political science about Giambattista Vico's philosophy of law under the supervision of Eduard Spranger.
In 1960, he started working as the assistant of Ferdinand A. Hermens, the only political scientist at the University of Cologne at the time.
Görres's devoutly Catholic family at first objected to her relationship with Agnoli, an atheist, even calling on Hermens to intervene.
Wolfgang Abendroth, a renowned German left-wing academic, recommended Agnoli to Ossip K. Flechtheim of the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin.
[2] In his essay, Agnoli discusses the question, why parliamentarianism does not allow the interests of the working population to be reflected in political power and in decisions in their favour.
He viewed West Germany as the prototype of such a "transformed" parliamentary democracy, which no longer allows for revolutionary action, not even a serious opposition.