In democracy, the people are said to rule, but are there limits to what the people can do? a) for many democratic thinkers throughout history, democracy is just as dependent on accidental structural conditions as it is on the "will of the people." b) most often, observers of democracy have noted important relationships between economic conditions and democratic institutions. c) for example, it is a kind of truism today that, in samuel huntington's words, "[e]conomic development makes democracy possible." d) in other words, absent a specific kind of economic structure, the persistence and even the existence of democracy