In Gilens and Page 2014 Testing Theories of American Politics, majoritarian electoral democracy is the ideal-type theory that federal policy is driven chiefly by average citizens or the median voter through electoral competition, retrospective accountability, and democratic responsiveness.
Use this concept when discussing the theory Gilens and Page test against economic-elite and interest-group alternatives. In their model, average-citizen preferences do not retain a substantial independent association with policy adoption after affluent preferences and interest-group alignments are included.
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