Joe Foweraker 
Oligarchy in the Americas [PDF ebook] 
Comparing Oligarchic Rule in Latin America and the United States

Part I: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Chapter 1: Oligarchic Rule in the Americas, South to North.- Chapter 2: Oligarchy and the Patrimonial State.- Chapter 3: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Part II: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in the United States.- Chapter 4: First Mode – The Federal Patrimonial State.- Chapter 5: Second Mode – Oligarchic Alliance and Party Politics.- Chapter 6: Third Mode – Oligarchy Transformed, the Republic Reduced.- Part III: Comparing Oligarchic Rule, South and North.- Chapter 7: Polity in the Americas.

Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor of Latin American Politics and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies at the University of Oxford, and author of
Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond (2018).