Yes, but fortunately there have been mass movements that have pushed the paper constitution beyond its original intent towards something like democracy.
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I'm unaware if there's any comparative work, but I think your implicit point, Jeer, is the right one: that the difference between "graft and fraud" and "self-serving elite" is just about who has access to the corruption.
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big business in the Gilded Age in the USA openly bought power; the pre-big business era elite in the UK were able to hold power for longer (US equivalent to old elites like TR were more likely to support economic regulation)
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It’s one long continuum, isn’t it? And someone definitely needs to study this more for the nineteenth century
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