Studying the Power Elite : Fifty Years of Who Rules America?, Paperback

by G. William Domhoff, Eleven Other Authors

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Studying the Power Elite : Fifty Years of Who Rules America?, Paperback by Domhoff, G. William; Campbell, John L.; Cox, Ronald W.; Lachmann, Richard W.; Lo, Clarence Y. H., ISBN 1138106992, ISBN-13 9781138106994, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 ch

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2017
• ISBN: 9781138106994
• Condition: Fine

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