
The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Is There a Difference Between Structure and Agency?
Rightle led theory is a way to reconcile two things, ok? So in the biggest sense, these are, it's like structure versus agency. And so that's what he was really describing. He was describing the enormous agency brought about by the particular structure of american society. The people at the top of these hierarchies themselves had a lot of agency bequeathed to them by the structure of the whole system. I mean, its sort of distilled into two ideal, typical, historical ways of looking at things. But the thing is that you do need to figure out who has agency. It did this, i think, brilliantly for the American system.
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