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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
G William Domhoff |
| ISBN: | 9780078026713 0078026717 |
| OCLC Number: | 855983805 |
| Description: | pages cm |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Power and Class in America -- What Is Power? -- The Social Science View of Power -- Three Power Indicators -- What Is a Social Class? -- Social Class According to Social Scientists -- A Guide to What Follows -- 2. The Corporate Community -- The Unexpected Origins of the Corporate Community -- The Board of Directors -- The Corporate Community -- The Director Network as a Leadership Group -- The Corporate Lawyers -- From Small Farms to Agrifood Businesses -- Small Business: Not a Counterweight -- Local Businesses Form Growth Coalitions -- Structural Power and Its Limits -- 3. The Corporate Community and the Upper Class -- Is There an American Upper Class? -- Prepping for Power -- Social Clubs -- The Feminine Half of the Upper Class -- Dropouts, Failures, and Change Agents -- Continuity and Upward Mobility -- Is the Upper Class an Economic Class? -- The Upper Class and Corporate Control -- Where Do Corporate Executives Come From? Contents note continued: The Assimilation of Rising Corporate Executives -- Class Awareness -- 4. The Policy-Planning Network -- An Overview of the Policy-Planning Network -- Corporate Interlocks with Think Tanks and Policy Groups -- Foundations -- Think Tanks -- The Mixed Role of Universities in American Power Conflicts -- The Policy-Discussion Groups -- The Committee for Economic Development -- The Liberal-Labor Policy Network -- The Power Elite -- The Policy-Planning Network in Perspective -- 5. The Role of Public Opinion -- An Overview of the Opinion-Shaping Network -- Striving to Shape Opinion on Foreign Policy -- Trying to Shape Opinion on Economic Policies -- The Power Elite and Social Issues -- The Role of the Mass Media -- Attempts to "Enforce" Public Opinion -- When Public Opinion Can and Cannot Be Ignored -- 6. Parties and Elections -- Electoral Rules as Containment Strategies -- Electoral Constraints and Voter Suppression in America. Contents note continued: How Growth Coalitions Changed Electoral Rules -- How Elections Nonetheless Matter -- Why Only Two Major Parties? -- Republicans and Democrats -- Party Primaries as Government Structures -- The Big, Not Determinative, Role of Campaign Finance -- The Obama Donor Network: A Case History -- Other Corporate Support for Candidates -- The Liberal-Labor Alliance in Electoral Politics -- The Results of the Candidate Selection Process -- But There's Still Uncertainty -- 7. How the Power Elite Dominate Government -- The Role of Governments -- The Special-Interest Process -- The Policy-Making Process -- Appointees to Government -- The First Obama Administration -- Supreme Court Appointments -- The Liberal-Labor Alliance and Congress -- Corporate Complaints of Impotence: Their Real Fears -- The Limits of Corporate Domination -- 8. The Big Picture -- Why are the Corporate Rich So Powerful? -- The Transformation of the American Power Structure. Contents note continued: Power and Social Change -- 9. What Do Other Social Scientists Think? -- Pluralism -- Historical Institutionalism -- The Organizational State Perspective -- Elite Theory -- Finding Common Ground. |
| Responsibility: | G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz. |
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