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A classic of American government, Who's Running America? continues
to demonstrate how power is concentrated in large institutions no
matter who inhabits the White House. The eighth edition of this
best-selling text focuses on the Obama administration and the ways
in which it is different from but also similar to administrations
that have come before. Based on years of exhaustive data
compilation and analysis, Who's Running America? explores the
influence and impact of governmental leaders, corporate officials,
and other elites both inside and outside the United States.
Employing an oligarchic model of national policymaking, Tom Dye
doesn't just lay out theory and data. He very consciously "names
names" in describing the people who inhabit the White House, the
Cabinet, the leaders of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, as
well as the board rooms of the nation's largest corporations and
banks including leading media lights as well as "fat cat" political
contributors. Dye argues that big institutions run America, but
also that these institutions are made up of real people. Who's
Running America? puts the flesh and bones on the statistics and
delivers the inside scoop on the Obama reign.
A classic of American government, Who's Running America? continues
to demonstrate how power is concentrated in large institutions no
matter who inhabits the White House. The eighth edition of this
best-selling text focuses on the Obama administration and the ways
in which it is different from but also similar to administrations
that have come before. Based on years of exhaustive data
compilation and analysis, Who's Running America? explores the
influence and impact of governmental leaders, corporate officials,
and other elites both inside and outside the United States.
Employing an oligarchic model of national policymaking, Tom Dye
doesn't just lay out theory and data. He very consciously "names
names" in describing the people who inhabit the White House, the
Cabinet, the leaders of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, as
well as the board rooms of the nation's largest corporations and
banks including leading media lights as well as "fat cat" political
contributors. Dye argues that big institutions run America, but
also that these institutions are made up of real people. Who's
Running America? puts the flesh and bones on the statistics and
delivers the inside scoop on the Obama reign.
The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic
urban form in the United States has raised the question of the
adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed
local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the
attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government,
stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the
resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and execute
area-wide policies. This book takes note of the failures of the
metropolitan governmental proposals and turns attention to the
forces for decentralization in the government of metropolitan
areas. In other words, this is a study of the forces for
independence-the values that impel local units to cherish and
protect their separate identities. It seeks to describe these
values not as sentiments, but as actual public policies realized
through the actions of local governments. Specifically, it analyzes
the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the
patterns of inter-local cooperative arrangements reflect the
discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs. The locus of the
study is the Philadelphia area, but its findings will be of
interest to a national as well as a local audience. Approximately
300 municipalities are covered in the analysis. The findings of the
study are discussed for their implications for future changes in
the governing of metropolitan areas. Although scholarly in its
approach to urban problems, this empirical study has been written
in a way that will make it understandable and valuable to the lay
reader. It is illustrated with maps and charts, and includes a
lengthy statistical appendix.
In this brief, eye-opening work, Thomas R. Dye explodes the myth
that public policy represents the "demands of people," and that the
making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality,
Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects
the values, interests, and preferences of the governing elite."Top
Down Policymaking" is a close examination of the process by which
the nation's elite goes about making public policy. Focusing on the
behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning
organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors,
special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers,
and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy does
not represent the "demands of people."The reality is that public
policy is made from the top down.
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