Forgotten: How Congress Ignores the Lower and Middle Classes -- Power and the Policy Agenda -- Congressional Attention to Economic Issues -- Economic Interests and the Economic Agenda in Congress -- Empowering Wall Street: Congressional Concern for Financial Deregulation -- Financial...

The rise of the super-rich in the United States during the last thirty years has rekindled concerns about oligarchic political influences. Following recent theoretical work by Winters (2011), we conceptualize oligarchy as a defense against threats to income accumulation by the super-rich. We...