Who Rules America?: Power and Politics in the Year 2000Sociologist Domhoff argues that there is a power elite in the United States comprising a corporate community, a social upper class, and a policy formation network that intersect with each other in significant ways and score at the top of four power indicators who benefits, who governs, who wins on p |
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... growth coalitions , the term rent is used in their theory as a way to describe all payments to landowners and related businesses : " We use the term broadly to include outright purchase ex- penditures as well as ... GROWTH COALITIONS 59.
... growth coalitions , the term rent is used in their theory as a way to describe all payments to landowners and related businesses : " We use the term broadly to include outright purchase ex- penditures as well as ... GROWTH COALITIONS 59.
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... , they include all those local interests that profit from the intensification of land use , including developers , con- tractors , mortgage bankers , and related real estate businesses 60 THE CORPORATE COMMUNITY AND THE GROWTH COALITIONS.
... , they include all those local interests that profit from the intensification of land use , including developers , con- tractors , mortgage bankers , and related real estate businesses 60 THE CORPORATE COMMUNITY AND THE GROWTH COALITIONS.
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... growth of the local community . As in the case of the corporate community , the central meeting points of the growth coalitions are most often banks , where executives from the utility companies and the department stores join with the ...
... growth of the local community . As in the case of the corporate community , the central meeting points of the growth coalitions are most often banks , where executives from the utility companies and the department stores join with the ...
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Power and Class in the United States | 1 |
The Corporate Community | 33 |
The Origins of the Corporate Community | 40 |
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