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    It is not the case that Governments under capitalism tend to adapt their agendas to the wishes of capitalists rather than the broader population.

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    • 1.Pluralist democratic theory (Dahl, Truman) demonstrates that competing interest groups—labor unions, NGOs, consumer advocates—regularly constrain and redirect state policy against capitalist preferences.
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    • 2.Empirical cases like New Deal labor legislation and post-war welfare states were enacted over sustained capitalist opposition, disconfirming a strong structural determination thesis.
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    • 1.The 'structural dependence' argument conflates systemic incentives with deterministic outcomes, ignoring that states possess autonomous bureaucratic interests irreducible to capitalist class preferences (Skocpol, Evans).
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    • 2.State autonomy theory shows that administrative capacity and institutional insulation can enable governments to pursue redistributive agendas even when capitalist investment confidence is threatened.
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    • 1.Governments depend on capitalists' investment decisions to raise taxes needed to fund public policies.
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    • 2.Even socialist parties that win elections must remain congenial to capitalists as long as the fundamentals of the economic system remain unchanged.
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