Do Oligarchs Rule the World? Jeffrey A. Winters on Wealth in Democracy

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Do Oligarchs Rule the World? Jeffrey A. Winters on Wealth in Democracy

Andrew Keen

Sep 13, 2019

In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Jeffrey A. Winters, the political scientist and author of Oligarchy, about the convergence of oligarchy and democracy, the complex phenomenon of Donald Trump, and the transformation of European countries becoming minority white.

Jeffrey A. Winters is an American political scientist at Northwestern University, specializing in the study of oligarchy. He has written extensively on Indonesia and on oligarchy in the United States. His 2011 book Oligarchy was the 2012 winner of the American Political Science Association's Luebbert Award for the Best Book in Comparative politics.

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