Periodicals>Journal Article: Gilens, Martin and Page, Benjamin I. (Fall 2014), Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Perspectives on Politics, Retrieved on 2014-04-21Source Material [www.princeton.edu]
Folksonomies: politics governance Memes
21 APR 2014
Is the United States is an Oligarchy?
Each of our four theoretical traditions (Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic Elite Domination, Majoritarian Interest Group Pluralism, and Biased Pluralism) emphasizes different sets of actors as critical in determining U.S. policy outcomes, and each tradition has engendered a large empirical literature that seems to show a particular set of actors to be highly influential. Yet nearly all the empirical evidence has been essentially bivariate. Until very recently it has not been pos...Folksonomies: politics governance
Folksonomies: politics governance
Plays on our suspicion of authority meme, but is it just an emergent phenomenon?