Why America Isn't a Democracy sources

Martin Gilens & Benjamin Page - Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens (2014) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Martin Gilens & Benjamin Page - Critics argued with our analysis of U.S. political inequality. Here are 5 ways they’re wrong. (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/23/critics-challenge-our-portrait-of-americas-political-inequality-heres-5-ways-they-are-wrong/

Dylan Matthews - Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it's wrong. (2016) https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-study

Branham et al. - When do the Rich Win? (2016) http://web.archive.org/web/20160606165216/http://jabranham.com/papers/MPSA-when-do-the-rich-win.pdf

Plato - Republic (c. 375 BC) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h

Aristotle - Politics (c. 350 BC) - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6762/pg6762-images.html

Aaron Blake - Kyrsten Sinema’s combustible thumb (2021) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/06/sinema-thumbs-down/

Amina Dunn - Most Americans support a $15 federal minimum wage (2021) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/04/22/most-americans-support-a-15-federal-minimum-wage/

Christopher S. Rugaber - Study: Obama tax hikes on rich didn’t hurt economy, or rich (2016) https://apnews.com/article/87553d69f3294e1fb3d0a5912f2e6e31

Federal income tax rates and brackets https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets

Household Income Percentile Calculator for the United States https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

How Much Does It Cost to Run for Office? (2024) https://goodparty.org/blog/article/how-much-cost-run-for-office

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Maryann Cousens - Americans Support Raising Taxes on the Wealthy and Big Corporations (2024) https://navigatorresearch.org/americans-support-raising-taxes-on-the-wealthy-and-big-corporations/

Matthew Sheffield - Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent (2019) https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/425422-a-majority-of-americans-support-raising-the-top-tax-rate-to-70/

Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell - Towards a New Socialism (1993) https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

Ryan Grim - The Squad: AOC and the Hope of Political Revolution (2023)

The Center for Working-Class Politics - Americans Across the Political Divide Want a Federal Job Guarantee (2024) https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cwcp-jobs-guarantee-poll