{"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

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Who governs? Who really rules? To what<\/div>\n
extent is the broad<\/div>\n
body of U.S. citizens<\/div>\n
sovereign, semi-sovereign, or largely powerless? These questions<\/div>\n
have animated much important<\/div>\n
work in the study of American politics.<\/div>\n
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By contrast, economic elites are estimated to<\/div>\n
have a quite substantial, highly significant,<\/div>\n
independent impact on policy. This does not mean that theories of Economic Elite Domination<\/div>\n
are wholly upheld, since our results indicate that individual<\/div>\n
elites must share their policy<\/div>\n
influence with organized interest<\/div>\n
groups. Still, economic elites<\/div>\n
stand out as quite influential \u2013<\/div>\n
more so than any other set of actors studied<\/div>\n
here \u2013 in the making of U.S. public policy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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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. 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