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Rated by Participant: 8D0413E2D690B3C1E2ACE63461F8565661325FF60995BFAAE904FBF6CDA46D0A
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Evidence emerged in 2014 that the U.S. has been functioning more like an oligarchy than a representative democracy since the 1980s. https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/page/n11/mode/2up critique of their work: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-study Response to critique: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/23/critics-challenge-our-portrait-of-americas-political-inequality-heres-5-ways-they-are-wrong/
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