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Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance 6th Edition

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Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, this classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.
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  7. Dimensions
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  8. Print length
    288 pages
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  • Aspiring Polymath
    5.0 out of 5 stars The newest edition. Worth the upgrade.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2010
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    I own the 5th and 6th editions. The author, Bill Domhoff ' actually makes useful changes through the editions. Not as a way to make big bucks off of students who "must"(not really) buy the newest edition that their teachers recommend. He updates it with the latest news on the power struggles. And the newest edition shows his hope in Barack Obama's challenges to the corporate community.

    You see, nobody likes to admit that there is a class system in the United States. Bill Domhoff shows that there clearly is a corporate community that propagates itself through joining exclusive clubs, expensive private schools, and through this, having extensive connections to other people in the upper class. It has been in place since before the civil war. Yes, that's right. The age of the robber barons. And if this isn't interesting enough, Domhoff shows how they influence public policy, and even public opinion. You'll find yourself thinking twice about many of the bills that are in the news. Because chances are, they are a product of the vicegrip that the corporate community has on our country.

    Anyway, I think that this book makes understanding the power structure in the United States a lot easier, and it makes sense of a lot of the things you hear. It in slightly politically charged, but it has quite a bit of facts, and is a very sociological study of power in america.
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  • SincereSeeker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Who Rules America?
    Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010
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    I found this book to be very insighful and answered a lot of my own personal questions and thoughts. I have known that class structure in our society plays a major role in both business and political arenas.

    The average person is so busy dealing with personal issues, focusing so much energy on social issues, watching reality shows and more concern about who will win the super bowl. We forget to stop and think because we are so stimulated as society.

    This book explains the class structures in our society and how the "upper classes" and the "ultra wealthly families" use their position of power to influence.

    This book is an "eye opener" and highly recommended if you want the truth.
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  • Doctor Jean ND
    4.0 out of 5 stars American political domination by rich, corporate class
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2013
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    I appreciate the huge amounts of data Domhoff organizes to support his theory that a highly-organized corporate class, united by self-interest and some social connections, dominates the American political system through its large political donations for candidates who favor their policies and by appointments within the executive branch. Domhoff finds their power center is the Business Roundtable.

    Domhoff's disdain for the Republican party and favoritism toward the Democrats cast a bias that I found distasteful. Democrat and Republican legislators are similar in voting on economic and tax issues. Research shows that they vote about 90% in favor of policies favored by the top 10% income-wise and very little for policies favored by the middle and lower socioeconomic classes. Let's not forget that during Clinton's reign, Robert Rubin encouraged deregulation of the financial sector leading to economic collapse a few years later. Domhoff demonstrates that the corporate class dominates the US political system.
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  • Erik Olson
    5.0 out of 5 stars but this book and followers to the "elite theory economic theory" have been wonderful since I got informed in 2003
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018
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    I was surprised how simple it was when I lifted the vail. At the time this was old-school, but much of it remains pertinent today. Intention, integrity and etc... Times have changed, but this book and followers to the "elite theory economic theory" have been wonderful since I got informed in 2003! Follow the money, follow the power; indicators of power include..., who rules, who governs, who wins.
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  • Paul
    3.0 out of 5 stars What went wrong with Domhoff's predictions?
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    This is the 2010 edition of a book power-elite theorist G. William Domhoff has been updating since the 70s. His model is sensible, though not without its critics, and his empirical data vast. Since I have read his earlier editions I was not surprised by much here. However, the closing chapter gets into the tricky business of predicting, or at least speculating about the future of our democracy in relation to Obama and the democratic majorities in Congress at the time. There are rosey suggestions that constitutional rights would be restored, and Bush era policies regarding terrorist suspects reigned in. In light of recent disclosures regarding secret NSA programs, this is ironic. The war in Afghanistan might be settled diplomatically. (see p.229) Most interestingly, Domhoff was optimistic about corporate power being checked by unions, which Obama would likely support. The fact that the Obama's appointees had spent more time in public service than in boardrooms of the private sector was cited as a significant indicator of decreased commitment to big business. Of course, Domhoff concedes that the Administration could also cave on these issues and claim that the Republican minority obstructed their best efforts in some of these areas. Still, the extent to which all of these suggestions turn out to be wrong is striking. The author has written a 2012 edition, and I don't know what he says about these matters now. What I do know is that the campaign pledges mentioned in the book (e.g. closing Guantanamo, restoring pr-Bush income tax codes, pursuing a government option for healthcare, et.al.) were not fulfilled, and that corporate power has rarely been so great at the expense of the middle, working and lower classes. When a model of governance fails to grasp such fundamental institutional trends, one has to ask what is wrong with the model. Domhoff, in this and earlier editions, believes that power elites tend to govern from the center. The radical shift of our polity to the right in an age of free market fundamentalism and transnational corporations with limited loyalties to the US may not be fully acknowledged in this comparatively optimistic assessment of the role of the democratic party in the closing chapters.
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  • Bee
    5.0 out of 5 stars The book is great, but don't buy this version!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018
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    DISCLAIMER: BUY THE NEWEST EDITION. Often there isn't a difference, but the discussion of Obama in the newest edition was very valuable to understanding current politics. Hopefully there will be more editions to follow as the political/corporate culture keeps "changing".
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  • ルフィ
    5.0 out of 5 stars 現代アメリカにおける権力構造の見取り図
    Reviewed in Japan on March 2, 2010
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    　著者のウィリアム・ドムホフは、現代アメリカの権力構造に関する著名なアメリカの社会学者である。
    　ドムホフは本書で、大企業の所有者と経営者が、役員兼任ネットワーク、学閥や社交などの社会的ネットワーク、経営者団体やシンクタンクや財団などの政策計画ネットワークを通じて集団的な利益の担い手を形成していることを明らかにしている。そして彼らが政治献金や政府への接触や政府要職への就任を通じて国家の政策に最大の影響力を与えているとする。また、大企業側に対して、労働組合などはリベラル労働連合を形成し対抗している。
    　こうした内容を持つ本書は、そのドムホフの最新の研究成果である。アメリカ社会に興味を有する人にとっては必読の書であろう。
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