Repoliticization has not translated into popular policy control

Evidence

The world hegemon’s public sphere has been reoccupied, yet the burst of repoliticization has not increased popular control over government, nor has it put important areas of policymaking within grasp. The spectacular mismatch between input and output, which American political scientists had long diagnosed—public support for a proposal (for instance, Medicare) being negatively correlated with its chance of being implemented as a policy—has only deepened, as the Biden-Harris record shows. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 26

Categorization

• XREF: instantiates the reader’s reading purpose on why saturation yields little durable change; the repoliticization-without-control paradox. — connects to: Ordinary citizens hold little independent influence over U.S. policy; The referendum is a popular veto, not a device for innovating law — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 3565; Large public majorities favoring policy change lose most of the time. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 106 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: The classic finding that mass support negatively correlates with policy adoption deserves to be pinned to its source authors (Gilens/Page?).