Universal suffrage functions as the primary power resource for market-disadvantaged wage earners

Evidence

According to what could be called a logic of choice of action spheres, wageand salary-earners who are relatively disadvantaged in terms of economic resources to be used on the markets can be expected to attempt - with varying degrees of success - to act collectively via democratic politics, where the universal and equal right to vote, at least in principle, is the most important power resource. — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 8

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the actual currency of power resources — votes and collective organization — that Korpi operationalizes as union density and left-party strength.