States unconstrained by suffrage obligations can break self-reinforcing poverty cycles

Evidence

A state or a governing party, however, which unlike those in India since 1947 is not committed to universal suffrage and owes nothing to any particular interest, can if it so wishes simply override vicious circles. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1616

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the usual democratic assumption — that representation and suffrage enable reform. Connects to the blindness novel where the Hobbesian strongman also owes nothing to any interest and can override all previous constraints.