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Studying the Power Elite - Fifty Years of Who Rules America? (Paperback)
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Studying the Power Elite - Fifty Years of Who Rules America? (Paperback)
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This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the
classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its
original publication in 1967-and through its subsequent editions.
The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve
sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and
new findings on many contemporary topics, among them the concerted
attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing
role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the
successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the
ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of
agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to
the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the
scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a
crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study
of power, not just in the United States, but globally. A brief
introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context
of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty
years-pluralism, Marxism, Millsian elite theory, and historical
institutionalism. Then, a chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author
of Who Rules America?, takes us behind the scenes on how the
original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution
of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by
Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers,
through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of
opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were
encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They
do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate
everyone's thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting
the agenda for future studies of power.
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