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    It is not the case that Deep changes in the economic structure of society are necessary to make electoral democracy fulfill its promise.

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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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    • 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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