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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

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Scholar Behind Viral ‘Oligarchy’ Study Tells You What It Means | TPM | April 2014 A new political science study that’s gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States – not so much in practice. The government caters to the affluent few and organized interest groups, the researchers find, while the average citizen’s influence

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