HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoCongress prepares to reauthorize a warrantless domestic spying program the FBI abusedreason.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down11cross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.worldlibertarianism@lemmy.world
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minus-squareTunaCowboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B