{"id":13135,"date":"2014-04-14T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=13135"},"modified":"2015-08-10T04:52:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:52:37","slug":"politicians-answer-to-the-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/politicians-answer-to-the-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Answer to the Elite?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Princeton has released a study verifying what everyone already knew: The government rarely listens to the average citizen when creating legislation and policy. Instead, they listen to special interest groups, think tanks, and the elite. This is not to say that these groups want something wholly different from government than the populace at large. It does, however, mean that these groups possess a powerful trump card when ideas don’t align.<\/p>\n
\nWho governs? Who really rules? To what<\/div>\nextent is the broad<\/div>\nbody of U.S. citizens<\/div>\nsovereign, semi-sovereign, or largely powerless? These questions<\/div>\nhave animated much important<\/div>\nwork in the study of American politics.<\/div>\n\nBy contrast, economic elites are estimated to<\/div>\nhave a quite substantial, highly significant,<\/div>\nindependent impact on policy. This does not mean that theories of Economic Elite Domination<\/div>\nare wholly upheld, since our results indicate that individual<\/div>\nelites must share their policy<\/div>\ninfluence with organized interest<\/div>\ngroups. Still, economic elites<\/div>\nstand out as quite influential \u2013<\/div>\nmore so than any other set of actors studied<\/div>\n