large-scale modern states constitutes an oligarchy. Using Aristotle's insight that oligarchy is not a single regime but a … roles of participatory politics. First, I introduce Aristotle's theory of oligarchy as a spectrum of regimes ranging from … toward an extreme form of elite rule that bears critical similarities to Aristotle's hereditary oligarchy. Third, I use …

stronger than Maskin monotonicity. We study three such processes: oligarchy, oligarchic democracy and random sampling …. Oligarchy collects only the opinions of the oligarchs (a strict subset of the individuals). We present a Nash implementable … social choice rule (SCR) that cannot be implemented by any oligarchy. Oligarchic democracy "almost always" collects the …

This study proposes the idea that Guyana’s present government can be categorized as an elected oligarchy. It highlights … exacerbated by the elected oligarchy to impair the economic development of the country. Using stylized data on economic trends …, the paper illustrates the direct and indirect channels through which the elected oligarchy stifles the private sector and …

transformations since the 1980s have resulted in oligarchic orders that each have a different potential for change. Oligarchy has …

described necessary and sufficient conditions for oligarchy and dictatorship results in social choice models that are nonbinary …