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Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy | TPM | April 2014

A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.

Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue
that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly
transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites
wield most power.