Democracy is the rule of the poor (Aristotle, Politics). The rule of the oligarchs is called Oligarchy.
They are, but quality of governance and political permeability are not the same thing. Singapore is not very democratic, and I hear people there think life is good.
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OK - so the question of how absolute the oligarchic rule should be or what form it should take has been posed (and debated) from the early renaissance onwards. A liberal bunch of nice oligarchs don't make a democracy - nor does economic success.
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We agree, but this debate is mostly inconsequential, because decisions about power tend to be made implicitly, by the dynamics of existing power; it is an emergent path with few genuine opportunities for deliberate re-design, because that requires abdication of existing powers.
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