Oligarchy

Form of government with small ruling class

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2016
Iron law of oligarchy
Bradi Heaberlin and Simon DeDeo performed a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia's network of norms, revealing the emergence of an oligarchy based on competencies in five clusters: administration, article quality, collaboration, formatting, and content policy.

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