Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America?
G. William Domhoff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught since after three years at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition to Who Rules America? The Triumph Of The Corporate Rich7e (McGraw-Hill ), he has most recently authored or co-authored The Leftmost City: Power And Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz (with Richard Gendron, Westview Press ); Class and Power In the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, And The Liberal-Labor Coalition (with Michael J. Webber, Stanford University Press ); The Myth Of Liberal Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance From The Great Depression To the Great Recession (Routledge ); and The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders Of Fortune Companies (with Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Rowman & Littlefield ).
John L. Campbell is the Class of Professor, Professor of Sociology, and Chair of the Sociology Department at Dartmouth College, and Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. His
Research on the Power Elite and Membership Network Analysis
An Interview with G. William Domhoff in
By Francois Denord[1], Paul Lagneau-Ymonet[2], & Silvain Laurens[3]
Abstract
In this interview, G. William Domhoff, author of the classic book Who Rules America?, recounts the genesis of Who Rules America? in and the development of power structure research since the s. Who Rules America? has been frequently updated in both its theory and empirical information, including a seventh edition in
Let's start from the very beginning. Basically, your background, education
GWD: So, I'm a middle American from the middle west. I'm from Ohio. And I grew up in a family that was not very political, if it was political at all. I never heard anything about politics. My father was not very religious, and neither really was my mother, but she took me and my sister, who is three years younger than I am, to a Methodist church. I grew up in that atmosphere, which made me part of the mainstream, but my parents, probably inadvertently, left enough room for doubt, which I now can see made it possible for me to become a scientific thinker. My dad worked as a manager of an o
Mills's The Power Elite, 50 Years Later
by G. William Domhoff
NOTE: This is a reprint of a journal article with the following citation:
Domhoff, G. William. "Mills's The Power Elite 50 Years Later." Contemporary Sociology
Fifty years ago, C. Wright Mills completed his trilogy on American society with the publication of The Power Elite, which encompassed, updated, and greatly added to everything he had said in The New Men of Power () and White Collar (). The book caused a firestorm in academic and political circles, leading to innumerable reviews in scholarly journals and the popular press, most of them negative. Bristling with terms like "the warlords," "the higher immorality," "the power elite," "crackpot realism," and "organized irresponsibility," it nonetheless contained a very large amount of research, much of it in the 47 pages of Notes. It became a classic because it was the first full-scale study of the structure and distribution of power in the United States by a sociologist using the full panoply of modern-day sociological theory and methods.
The Power Elite also broke new ground because it was one of the few critical studies of the America
by G. William Domhoff
Welcome to , a site about how power is distributed and wielded in the United States. It both builds upon and greatly supplements the book Who Rules America?, now in its 8th edition. As of August , the book also includes a lengthy new Prologue that covers the many events that have occurred since mid and includes a discussion of the key factors that will determine the outcome of the fateful elections. WRA's latest subtitle is "The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the s"; the story of how we got here and where we're going next is complicated, but most of the answers are in the book and/or this Web site; you can also watch some videos of Bill Domhoff giving invited lectures on the topic.
Among the many things you'll find in this Web site: supplementary information and updates for readers of Who Rules America?; an overview of the American power structure at the national level and an in-depth look at power at the local level; a look at the wealth and income distribution in the U.S.; and an overview of the Four Networks theory of power, which provides the best general th
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