Have Special Interests Managed to Capture the State?

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In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Alex Hertel-Fernandez, an assistant professor at Columbia University, about the ways in which special interests dominate American politics and whether this gives an inherent advantage to the right.

Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org
Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk

Podcast production by John T. Williams.

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