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American 'Participatory Inequality'

32 min · 26 de may de 2026
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Jeffrey Winters, professor of political science at Northwestern University and the director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the author of The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Blind-Spot/Jeffrey-Winters/9781668221532] (Scribner, 2026), talks about the history of oligarchy, how to fight it, and why it maintains power in a democracy. Photo: Cover art for The Blind Spot. (Credit: Simon & Schuster [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Blind-Spot/Jeffrey-Winters/9781668221532]) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. To access the official documents and the unedited interview transcript, please visit our digital archive here ➡️ https://goo.su/bCg2fNd [https://digitalmarketingtrendingtop.blogspot.com/] 📻 This conversation matters. Keep it alive. 🔥 [YOUR CLICK FUELS INDEPENDENT MEDIA — DO IT NOW] [https://digitalmarketingtrendingtop.blogspot.com/]🔥

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