DemoBro: The blatant and mocking oligarchy

I - Far Right and Populism

1. Gpahe Report. Mapping The Far Right The Movement’s Conferences Illuminate Its Growing Transnational Networks, 2024. (*)

2. Haynes, Jeffrey. "Right-wing populism and religion in Europe and the USA." Religions 11.10 (2020): 490.

3. Sandrin, Paula. "The rise of right-wing populism in Europe: A psychoanalytical contribution." Financial crisis management and democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America (2021): 227-239. (*)

4. Masood, Ayesha, and Muhammad Azfar Nisar. "Speaking out: A postcolonial critique of the academic discourse on far-right populism." Organization 27.1 (2020): 162-173. (*)

5. Del Real, Deisy, and Cecilia Menjívar. "The tools of autocracy worldwide: Authoritarian networks, the façade of democracy, and neo-repression." American Behavioral Scientist 68.12 (2024): 1559-1577.

II - From Democracy to Oligarchy: DemoBro

1. US and Generality 

6. Tscheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap I e II (*)

7. scheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap III e IV (*)

8. scheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap V e VI (*)

9. Allcorn, Seth. "America’s Oligarchy." Journal of Psychohistory 51.2 (2023).

10. Dingwerth, Klaus, and Julian Eckl. "Billionaires in world politics: donors, governors, authorities." Journal of Global Ethics 18.2 (2022): 201-210.

- FEFFER, JOHN. "Billionaires vs. Democracy." CounterPunch (2024).

- Kolhatkar, Sonali. "We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both." CounterPunch (2023).

11. Adler, Paul S., et al. "Authoritarianism, populism, and the global retreat of democracy: A curated discussion." Journal of Management Inquiry 32.1 (2023): 3-20. (*)

12. Arlen, Gordon, and Enzo Rossi. "Must realists be pessimists about democracy? Responding to epistemic and oligarchic challenges." Moral Philosophy and Politics 8.1 (2021): 27-49.

2. Europe

13. Lefkofridi, Zoe, and Nathalie Giger. "Democracy or oligarchy? Unequal representation of income groups in European institutions." Politics and Governance 8.1 (2020): 19-27. (*)

3. Russia 

14. Matveev, Ilya. "Big Business in Putin's Russia: Structural and Instrumental Power." Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 27.4 (2019): 401-422.

15. Marandici, Ion. "Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset." Ion Marandici,'Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset,'Europe-Asia Studies (2024). (*)

4. China

16. Zhu, Jiangnan. "The Rise and Fall of Ruling Oligarchs." China Review 22.2 (2022): 49-79. (*)

17. Milanovic, B. R. A. N. K. . "China’s inequality will lead it to a Stark choice." Foreign Affairs (2021).

5. Latin America and Brazil

18. Cameron, Maxwell A. "The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America." Third World Quarterly 42.4 (2020): 775-792.

19. Ferraz, Claudio, Frederico Finan, and Monica Martinez-Bravo. Political power, elite control, and long-run development: Evidence from Brazil. No. w27456. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020. (*)

20. Ioris, Rafael R., and Aaron Schneider. "Anti-Corruption and Democracy: Neo-Liberal Authoritarianism in Brazil." Ioris, Rafael R. and Schneider, Aaron, Anti-Corruption and Democracy: Neo-Liberal Authoritarianism in Brazil. May (2022) (*).

III - Miscelânea

Pal, Maïa, and Neal Harris. "Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 22.1 (2024): 232-247.