{"id":1158,"date":"2014-04-18T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2014-04-18T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:22:31","slug":"the-american-oligarchy-study-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/18\/the-american-oligarchy-study-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The American oligarchy study, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vox<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who really matters in our democracy \u2014 the general public, or wealthy elites? That&#8217;s the topic of a new study by political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern. The study&#8217;s been getting lots of attention, because the authors conclude, basically, that the U.S. is a corrupt oligarchy where ordinary voters barely matter. Or as they put it, &#8220;economic elites and organized interest groups play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/4\/18\/5624310\/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained\" target=\"_blank\">Read an explainer of the study from Vox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~mgilens\/Gilens%20homepage%20materials\/Gilens%20and%20Page\/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full-text study from Princeton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vox: Who really matters in our democracy \u2014 the general public, or wealthy elites? That&#8217;s the topic of a new study by political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern. The study&#8217;s been getting lots of attention, because the authors conclude, basically, that the U.S. is a corrupt oligarchy where ordinary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/18\/the-american-oligarchy-study-explained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The American oligarchy study, explained<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}