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A Defective Democracy: The Case of the United States
DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1100669
Subject Areas:
Sociology ,
Politics
Keywords: Defective Democracy , Dominant Beliefs , Defects , United States , Gini Coefficient , Wolfgang Merkel , Auriel Croissant , Socio-Economic Inequality
Abstract
According to the six criteria of Wolfgang Merkel and Auriel Croissant to
distinguish various political systems, the United States is a defective
democracy, with increasing socio-economic inequality.
Cite this paper
Dreijmanis, J. (2014). A Defective Democracy: The Case of the United States. Open Access Library Journal , 1, e669. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1100669 .
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