TITLE:
A Defective Democracy: The Case of the United States
AUTHORS:
John Dreijmanis
KEYWORDS:
Defective Democracy, Dominant Beliefs, Defects, United States, Gini Coefficient, Wolfgang Merkel, Auriel Croissant, Socio-Economic Inequality
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.1 No.5,
August
4,
2014
ABSTRACT: According to the six criteria of Wolfgang Merkel and Auriel Croissant to distinguish various political systems, the United States is a defective democracy, with increasing socio-economic inequality.