https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/14

(Here's a link directly to the abstract: http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gi...s%203-7-14.pdf)

So you had your suspicion that the US wasn't exactly a democracy, but denouncing it as tyranny is no longer merely rhetoric. Once you examine the actual influence voters wield over Public Policy, there's no debate. With less than 1% influence, American Voters are more like another meaningless interest group in a flood of political pressures.

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Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.