Campaign finance dependency structurally undermines formal democratic inclusiveness

Evidence

Perhaps the greatest problem with making any democratic system of government truly inclusive comes of the fact that politicians need funds in order to win election, and that they and the parties they form have to depend on certain individuals and companies to finance their activities. Such dependency is bound to leave the politicians particularly alert to the interests of their financial supporters, and it means that, however formally satisfactory, the parliament and the government are going to cease to be substantively inclusive. Those who fund politicians and political parties can expect to have a greater voice in government than those who do not; those who do not contribute, or who have nothing to contribute, do not have the same chance of having their interests and ideas properly represented in the corridors of power. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 878

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic interdependence between classes historically drove democratic inclusion — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1601; Pseudoconservatives misdirect resentment at democratic form rather than economic inequality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1797; Substantive democracy required deliberately raising the political value of devalued Untouchables (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal political equality masks deep economic servitude that hollows out democracy #corroborates (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406
• Economic interdependence between classes historically drove democratic inclusion #contradicts (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1601
• Neoliberal rationality makes inequality normal and normative in democracy #corroborates (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 63
• Substantive democracy required deliberately raising the political value of devalued Untouchables #corroborates (0.80)
• Finance may revitalize democratic community rather than only undermine it #contradicts (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 396
• Liberal democratic values are ambiguous and can legitimize domination #corroborates (0.78) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 114
• Pseudoconservatives misdirect resentment at democratic form rather than economic inequality #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1797
• Racial democracy rendered structural inequality invisible and individualized #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberalism’s weakening of democratic values enables neoconservative moralism and authoritarianism #expands (0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 169