The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America (Social Institutions and Social Change) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0202303721 ISBN 13: 9780202303727

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C.Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America than those of Mills's opponents.

Dr. Domhoff shows how and why coalitions within the power elite have involved themselves in such policy issues as the Social Security Act (1935) and the Employment Act (1946), and how the National Labor Relations Act (1935) could pass against the opposition of every major corporation. The book descri bes how experts worked closely with the power elite in shaping the plansfor a post-World War II world economic order, in good part realized during the past 30 years. Arguments are advanced that the fat cats who support the Democrats cannot be understood in terms of narrow self-interest, and that moderate conservatives dominated policy-making under Reagan.

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About the Author

G. William Domhoff is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his education at Duke University, Kent State University, and the University of Miami. Among Domhoff's many books are: The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America (Aldine); Mystique of Dreams; Who Rules America Now?; and Jews in the Protestant Establishment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0202303721
• ISBN 13: 9780202303727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 315
• Editor: Domhoff G. William