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    Deep changes in the economic structure of society are nec... — Carmelics
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    Deep changes in the economic structure of society are necessary to make electoral democracy fulfill its promise.

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    • 1.Political power cannot be insulated from economic power.
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    • 2.As long as capitalism persists, capitalists retain disproportionate influence over elected governments regardless of electoral outcomes.
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    • 1.Electoral democracies with robust constitutional rights and independent judiciaries have historically constrained concentrated economic power without structural economic transformation.
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    • 2.The New Deal, post-war social democracy, and antitrust legislation demonstrate that redistributive reform is achievable through electoral mechanisms within capitalist frameworks.
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    • 3.If incremental institutional reform can progressively reduce plutocratic influence, deep structural change is sufficient but not necessary for democratic promise.
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    • 1.Robert Dahl's polyarchy framework shows that dispersed veto points and competitive elections generate genuine accountability even when economic inequality persists.
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    • 2.The inference from 'economic power influences politics' to 'electoral democracy cannot fulfill its promise' conflates distortion with nullification, a logical non sequitur.
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    The third point about domination mentioned above is also deployed by socialists to say that capitalism conflicts with democracy (Wright 2010: 81–4; Arnold n.d. [OIR]: sect. 4; Bowles and Gintis 1986; Meiksins Wood 1995). Democracy requires that people have roughly equal power to affect the political process that structures their social life—or at least that inequalities do not reflect morally irrelevant features such as race, gender, and class. Socialists have made three points regarding the c
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