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a political system governed by a few people

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It is now no longer dominated by Filipino mestizos but by Filipino Chinese who, unlike the sugar oligarchy, seem to be interested only in making money and shun partisan politics.
The poor will overthrow the oligarchy and set up a democracy, the rule of the people (the poor).
Like all monstrous oligarchies, they are desperate to preserve the old order @DouglasCarswell Yes Douglas, the "monstrous oligarchy" is terrified that the "old order" is going to be overthrown by the anti-establishment Etonian, Oxford graduate, PS250K a year Telegraph columnist, career politician, Alexander Pfeffel Johnson.
Tel-Aviv-based publishing and graphic design house Studio Igal Rozental Ltd announced on Monday that it has engaged GoTranscript.com, a UK translation and transcript company, to translate an non-fiction title, 'Moldova Under Vladimir Plahotniuc: Corruption & Oligarchy' by American political investigative author Aaron Miller.
Political culture in the form of a continuation of colonial patronage structure where both civil and military elite is beyond the discursive binary a single praetorian oligarchy is the second critical challenge to democracy in Pakistan.
As the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) marked its 50th anniversary on Wednesday, its founding chair, Jose Maria Sison, called President Rodrigo Duterte a bloodthirsty 'murder maniac' who represented an oligarchy worse than that of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy. By Jay Cost.
'The Northern oligarchy also needs to allow Nigerians to live in peace.
From Oligarchy to Republicanism: 7he Great Task of Reconstruction, by Forrest A.
Babaoglu added that the gangster oligarchy, together with Sargsyan, by using the corruption machine created in Armenia, got their hands on not only the budget, but also the donations of the Armenian diaspora, and is now looking for the ways to leave the country.
From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction
It is logical, then, that the tripartite oligarchy welcomes the strategy that keeps the country away from the EU membership, while at the same time deceiving the population that the strategy is a certain path to the EU.
The person who won partly because of his promise to be the first leftist and socialist president has come out to be a fascist and puppet of domestic oligarchy and foreign imperialism.
Nabors (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alaska) presents From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, a scholarly analysis of the American Civil War, and especially the Reconstruction afterward.
'There is a communication gap between leadership like Maulana and the international stake-holders, and the same has been maintained purposely by forces inimical to Pakistan which has resulted in policy shift by the Pakistani oligarchy', US leader mentioned.