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More than a decade ago political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University took an extraordinary data set compiled by Gilens and a small army of researchers and set out to determine whether America could still credibly call itself a democracy.
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Political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page took an extraordinary data set and set out to determine whether America could still credibly call itself a democracy more than a decade ago
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https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig discuss the rise of oligarchy in the US, fueled by billionaire influence. They analyze the implications of this trend and propose policy recommendations to address the corrupting influence of money in politics.
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