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View submission: Are there examples of oligarchic governments being removed peacefully?
Wrote to you in another chain before seeing this message. I proposed the example of Sweden in the other comment, arguing that it was clearly an oligarchy in 1910 but was probably not in 1976.
I don't have a deep understanding of Winters' work, but based on your definition here I would hazard to say that Sweden clearly qualifies as a oligarchy in 1910. There's some room to debate whether it qualifies as an oligarchy today, but if the answer is yes, you would have to argue that nearly every modern society is an oligarchy - which is maybe true, but then oligarchy starts to look like an inherent feature of modern life as opposed to something that working classes can feasibly fight against.
Conversely, if the answer is no, then Sweden would be an example of a country that peacefully ended its oligarchy, albeit over a gradual 40+ year transition instead of a single dramatic moment.
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