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  1. For the importance of the retrospective burdening of elites to both populist and plebiscitary (or ‘plebeian’) models, see Green (2011: 196).

  2. Verba et al (1978: 1), for example, conclude in their landmark 1978 cross-national study: ‘The political advantage of those citizens more advantaged in socio-economic terms is found in all nations, certainly in all those for which we have data’ – a finding that is repeated in even stronger terms by Verba et al (1995: 1): ‘No democratic nation … lives up to the ideal of participatory equality’.

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green, j. figuring out democracy. Eur Polit Sci 14, 165–169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2015.14

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