Jeffrey Winters

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Jeffrey Winters is a professor and past chair of political science at Northwestern University and the director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Renowned for his groundbreaking work on oligarchs and elites, Winters wrote the influential book Oligarchy, which reintroduced the term to modern audiences and won the American Political Science Association’s 2012 Luebbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics. Winters has lectured extensively in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New Yorker, on National Public Radio, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, and PBS.

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Books by Jeffrey Winters

The Blind Spot

How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy

By Jeffrey Winters

An urgent and revealing examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality that “grips like a political thriller, warns like an alarm, and astonishes on every page” (Jonathan Eig, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for King: A Life).

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