What “Neo-Feudal” Looks Like in Modern Alaska Politics

What “Neo-Feudal” Looks Like in Modern Alaska Politics

By Michael Tavoliero Modern Alaska “neo-feudalism” is not chainmail and castles. It is a thicket of agencies, boards, state corporations, grant pipelines, and licensed guilds wedged between Alaskans and Alaska’s wealth. Citizens don’t receive ownership; they file paperwork. A political class and its contractor class dole out permissions, exemptions, and program money while protecting captive markets. In that system, the Legislature’s priority is…