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http://wws.princeton.edu/system/files/research/documents/Gilens_Testing%20Theories%20of%20American%20Politics.pdf http://wws.princeton.edu/system/files/research/documents/Gil... There is next to no correlation between the will of the people and the chance of their preferred policy being enacted. There's a very strong correlation between the will of the elites and their preferred policy being enacted. The US is only nominally a democracy, it is functionally an oligarchy.