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Federico M. Rossi

Professor of Political Sociology at UNED, Madrid. His latest books: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements (Oxford University Press) and Social Movements and Democracy (National Electoral Institute of Mexico).

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The real threat to democracy is not populism: it is oligarchy

The crisis of democracy does not stem from mobilized masses, but from economic elites who, operating from within, have learned to govern without accountability.