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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Why Is Inequality Higher in America?

Why Is Inequality Higher in America? — The Monkey Cage:


There are more avenues to corrupt the system, therefore the system is more corrupt.

When we examine our set of 23 long-standing democracies in advanced economies, we find that slightly more than half of these countries (12.5) actually have only one electorally generated veto player … There are 7.5 countries with two veto players, two countries (Switzerland and Australia) with three veto players, and only one country, the United States of America, with four electorally generated veto players

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