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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

The U.S. government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern universities has concluded.

The report, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (PDF), used extensive policy data collected between 1981 and 2002 to empirically determine the state of the U.S. political system.

After sifting through nearly 1,800 U.S. policies enacted in that period and comparing them to the expressed preferences of average Americans (50th percentile of income), affluent Americans (90th percentile), and large special interests groups, researchers concluded that the U.S. is dominated by its economic elite.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Us and Russia.

Anonymous said...

No surprise here. Add us to the list.

Anonymous said...

DUH..tell me something i dont know

Anonymous said...

Only because we the people continue to believe the garbage coming from the pols mouths just as long as they scream rah rah for their respective party. And who would have thunk in the information age we would have so many low information voters

Anonymous said...

I heard yesterday Joe Biden is running for Gov of DE!

Anonymous said...

sorry, I meant BO !