Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff’s classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society.
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Essential reading to understand power in America,
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In this book, Domhoff investigates where the power lies in America. He defines the 3 indicators of power, 'Who Benefits', 'Who Governs', and 'Who Wins' as the basis for determining who holds power. At the end of Chapter 1, Domhoff briefly summarizes the main points of the book:
"Using membership network analysis, this book attempts to show there is a corporate community (Chapter 2) that is the basis for a social upper class (Chapter 3). This intertwined corporate community and social upper class have developed a policy-planning network (Chapter 4) and an opinion-shaping network (Chapter 5) that give them the means to win a majority of seats in the electoral process (Chapter 6) and to shape the policies of interest to them within the federal government (Chapter 7)." The arguments made here are very well researched, with quantitative analysis of how corporate leaders are linked with each other through their common elite socialization and self-interests, corporate directorship positions, foundation trustee status, policy planning groups, and government positions. Domhoff gives the subject of power an honest and insightful treatment. After reading this book, I can't imagine a more logical and convincing description of how the unequal distribution of power in America is maintained, and further consolidated. Given its $30 price tag for less than 300 page paperback, I'd check the library before buying this one. Still, highly recommended!
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Picks up the baton of C. Wright Mills,
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This is a tremendously well-written examination of the structure of power in America. It continues the ideas of Mills but with more of the empirical and less of the theoretical. A MUST-READ for anyone who claims to know how America is ruled. Simply stated--if this book doesn't get your blood boiling and move you to action then you have no right to complain about the present state of the American political system.
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structural economic power, conservative voting bloc, power structure research, social upper class, local growth coalitions, porate community, distributive power, power indicators, elite theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Business Roundtable, New York, World War, Southern Democrats, Supreme Court, Brookings Institution, Business Council, Ford Foundation, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Bohemian Grove, General Motors, Reagan Administration, National Association of Manufacturers, New Deal, San Francisco, Wall Street, White House, General Electric, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Horatio Alger, Ivy League, New Christian Right New!
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structural economic power, conservative voting bloc, power structure research, social upper class, local growth coalitions, porate community, distributive power, power indicators, elite theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Business Roundtable, New York, World War, Southern Democrats, Supreme Court, Brookings Institution, Business Council, Ford Foundation, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Bohemian Grove, General Motors, Reagan Administration, National Association of Manufacturers, New Deal, San Francisco, Wall Street, White House, General Electric, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Horatio Alger, Ivy League, New Christian Right New!
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- Power Structure Research (SAGE Focus Editions) by G . William Domhoff on 7 pages
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- The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America (Social Institutions and Social Change) by G. William Domhoff on 5 pages
- Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America by David Vogel on 5 pages
- Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? by Mr. Richard L. Zweigenhaft on 5 pages
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- Solidarity and Contention: The Politics of Security and Sustainability in the NAFTA Conflict (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Michael Dreiling in Back Matter
- Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes by Jodi A. O'Brien in Back Matter
- Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective by David Grusky on page 42
- Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy by Jeff Manza in Back Matter
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