Saturday, December 12, 2020

A new study finds even more influence by wealthy elites on U.S. policy-making

https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-victory-was-hardly-a-win-for-democracy-it-was-another-win-for-the-1/

 

Research published this year by McGuire and Delahunt to sharpen the focus and deepen understanding of how wealthy elites and business interest groups control policy by “the transfer of large amounts of money to policy makers from the wealthiest sources focused intensely on particular policies.” Their work uses artificial intelligence techniques to build on that of Gilens and Page who used more standard statistical methods. The author claims that Biden’s recent presidential campaign was funded by the same elite sources. A summary of McGuire’s and Hunt’s October 2020 paper is here.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

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