The Power Elite and the State: How Policy Is Made in America

ISBN-13: 9780202303727 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 315 str.

G. William Domhoff

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Social Networks, Power, and the State; 2: Does it Matter Who Governs?; 3: Business Leaders, Experts, and the Social Security Act; 4: The Wagner Act and Class Conflict, 1897-1948; 5: Defining the National Interest, 1940-1942:; 6: The Ruling Class Does Rule; 7: State Autonomy And The Employment Act of 1946; 8: Class Segments and Trade Policy, 1917-1962; 9: Which Fat Cats Support Democrats?; 10: The Decline of Disruption and the Return of Conservatism; Envoi

O autorze

G. William Domhoff