Power Elite and the State
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781351476652
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences); Power (Social sciences); Politics and government; Élite (Sciences sociales); Pouvoir (Sciences sociales); Politique et gouvernement
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Social Networks, Power, and the State; title: chapter 2 Does it Matter Who Governs?; title: chapter 3 Business Leaders, Experts, and the Social Security Act; title: chapter 4 The Wagner Act and Class Conflict, 1897-1948; title: chapter 5 Defining the National Interest, 1940-1942: A Critique of Krasner's Theory of American State Autonomy; title: chapter 6 The Ruling Class Does Rule: The State Autonomy Theory of Fred Block, and the Origins of the International Monetary Fund; title: chapter 7 State Autonomy and the Employment Act of 1946: An Empirical Attack on a Theoretical Fantasy; title: chapter 8 Class Segments and Trade Policy, 1917-1962: A Challenge to Pluralists and Structural Marxists; title: chapter 9 Which Fat Cats Support Democrats?; title: chapter 10 The Decline of Disruption and the Return to Conservatism.