 However these expectations were disappointed.Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas of a collective will on which Rotteck's theories relied had long been superseded, and the generation now coming to maturity was much too concerned with practical tasks that society needed to solve through its politics to let itself be caught up in Rotteck's abstract idealism.Nevertheless Rotteck's judgement on the questions of the day still had great influence, especially after he founded his organ, the "Allgemeine politischen Annalen", where he commented on all worldly affairs from his pulpit of the liberal point of view.