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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/8ba649a185b7f0ae https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-or-domination/ Democracy or Domination - The Role of Competition Law in the Face of Oligarchy Davies, Todd Cohen, Spencer eng 2025-01-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Competition Law democracy Elon Musk Plutocracy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The urgency of Europe’s creep towards plutocracy calls for a similarly urgent response. Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and revitalise democracy in Europe from the threats posed by excessive concentrations of private power. For it to be effective for that purpose, competition scholars must clearly articulate which democratic values, like non-domination, competition law should seek to pursue, and clear-mindedly design mechanisms through which to channel them.