Representative democracy in one of the more well known forms (America's) is demonstrably an oligarchy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens

Representative democracy in one of the more well known forms (America's) is demonstrably an oligarchy: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...