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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... liberal - labor camp suggests that religious and social values can sometimes be as important as class in shaping political orientations , and historically there are many ex- amples of liberal , reformist , and even revolutionary leaders ...
... liberal - labor camp suggests that religious and social values can sometimes be as important as class in shaping political orientations , and historically there are many ex- amples of liberal , reformist , and even revolutionary leaders ...
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... liberal policy organizations receive support from unions , they are funded primarily by grants from a small number of liberal foundations and by grants for specific projects from a few mainstream foundations , especially Ford ...
... liberal policy organizations receive support from unions , they are funded primarily by grants from a small number of liberal foundations and by grants for specific projects from a few mainstream foundations , especially Ford ...
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... liberal - labor coalition as long as African - Americans could not vote in the South , a point that has been demonstrated in detail for the years 1936 to 1964 by historian Alan Brinkley and political scientist Michael K. Brown.68 The ...
... liberal - labor coalition as long as African - Americans could not vote in the South , a point that has been demonstrated in detail for the years 1936 to 1964 by historian Alan Brinkley and political scientist Michael K. Brown.68 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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