The democratic concessions built into liberal ideology are the price hegemony pays to endure

Evidence

It is important to say that this contradiction within the dominant ideology represents, at the ideological level, real previously won concessions —the price the dominant ideology pays for its continuing hegemony: the vote, universal suffrage, parliamentary representation, the legalization of unions and the right to strike, the ending of monarchical or aristocratic rule, the welfare state, etc. The “liberal ideology” is the consensus philosophy of a society, not without conflict, but with conflict regulated by norms which do not disturb the fundamental agreements. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 878

Categorization

• DEFINE: Powerful point that universal suffrage and union rights are not hostile to dominant ideology but are inside it—the concessions dominant ideology absorbs to sustain itself.