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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... largest and best- financed part of the coalition , and the largest organized social force in the country ( aside from churches ) . They also cut across racial and ethnic lines more than any other institutionalized sector of American ...
... largest and best- financed part of the coalition , and the largest organized social force in the country ( aside from churches ) . They also cut across racial and ethnic lines more than any other institutionalized sector of American ...
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... largest banks , ten largest insurance companies , and ten largest railroads could be determined : thirty - eight of the forty were linked into one common network , with twelve of the thirty - eight having eleven to twenty - six ...
... largest banks , ten largest insurance companies , and ten largest railroads could be determined : thirty - eight of the forty were linked into one common network , with twelve of the thirty - eight having eleven to twenty - six ...
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... largest , however , where only 17 percent of the 47 companies in- cluded in the study showed evidence of major family involvement . The findings on the small percentage of the very largest industrials under individual or family control ...
... largest , however , where only 17 percent of the 47 companies in- cluded in the study showed evidence of major family involvement . The findings on the small percentage of the very largest industrials under individual or family control ...
Contents
Power and Class in the United States | 1 |
The Corporate Community | 33 |
The Origins of the Corporate Community | 40 |
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