Who Rules America? - The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, Inclusionary

Domhoff details how the corporate rich and the power dominate US policy, despite constant challenges from inclusionary alliances and from Democrats. The book is updated to explain attempts to influence public opinion and how minority rule can now undermine other policies.

List of contents

Introduction: Setting the Stage for What Follows; 1. Concepts, Definitions, and Power Indicators; 2. The Corporate Community; 3. The Corporate Community and the Upper Class; 4. The Corporate Rich, The Policy-Planning Network, and the Power Elite; 5. The Role of Public Opinion; 6. Parties and Elections; 7. How the Power Elite Dominate Government; 8. Examining the American Power Structure in a Wider Perspective

About the author

G. William (Bill) Domhoff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In addition to previous editions of this book, he is the author or co-author of 20 other books on power and diversity in the United States, including The Higher Circles (1970), The Powers That Be (1979), Jews in the Protestant Establishment (1982, with Richard L. Zweigenhaft), The Power Elite and the State (1990), Blacks in the White Elite (2003, with Richard L. Zweigenhaft), The Leftmost City (2009, with Richard Gendron), Class and Power in the New Deal (2011, with Michael J. Webber), and Diversity in the Power Elite (2018, with Richard L. Zweigenhaft). Most recently, he searched over two dozen archives to write The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century (2020).

Summary

Domhoff details how the corporate rich and the power dominate US policy, despite constant challenges from inclusionary alliances and from Democrats. The book is updated to explain attempts to influence public opinion and how minority rule can now undermine other policies.

Product details

• Authors: G William Domhoff, G. William Domhoff
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781032139036
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213903-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity