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Folksonomies: politics criticism Memes
21 APR 2014
Counterpoint to "US Oligarchy" Finding
As usual. It implies that the views of 'average Americans' are abrogated by the economic elite. As the PDF clearly states on page 14 "It turns out, in fact, that the preferences of average citizens are positively and fairly highly correlated, across issues, with the preferences of the economic elites." It also turns out that the paper defines 'average American' as someone at the 50% income level, and 'economic elite' as someone at the 90% income level or above, which works out to $146,000. Th...Folksonomies: politics governance
Folksonomies: politics governance
Does the research actually find that people who organize and attempt to influence government actually do?