The Influence of Wealth on Public Policy — Podcast April 28, 2014


Yes, the Rich Really Do Run the United States: Are You Surprised? Democratic Perspective’s Mike Cosentino, Gary LaMaster, and Steve Williamson discuss the implications of several recent studies on the influence of concentrated wealth on public policy making, including the very influential Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page of Princeton University. Is the U.S. a democracy or an oligarchy? We report, you decide.

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