{"product_id":"studying-the-power-elite-fifty-years-of-who-rules-america-paperback","title":"Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. William Domhoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEleven Other Authors\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, \u003ci\u003eWho Rules America?, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA brief introductory chapter situates \u003ci\u003eWho Rules America?\u003c\/i\u003e 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 chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author of \u003ci\u003eWho Rules America?\u003c\/i\u003e, takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers, through the 2014 seventh edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone's thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting the agenda for future studies of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. William Domhoff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught since 1965 after three years at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition to \u003ci\u003eWho Rules America? The Triumph Of The Corporate Rich\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e7e \u003c\/i\u003e(McGraw-Hill 2014), he has most recently authored or co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Leftmost City: Power And Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz \u003c\/i\u003e(with Richard Gendron, Westview Press 2008); \u003ci\u003eClass and Power In the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, And The Liberal-Labor Coalition\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael J. Webber, Stanford University Press 2011); \u003ci\u003eThe Myth Of Liberal Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance From The Great Depression To the Great Recession\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge 2013); and \u003ci\u003eThe New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders Of Fortune 500 Companies\u003c\/i\u003e (with Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn L. Campbell is the Class of 1925 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 most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany and Denmark\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2014), \u003ci\u003eThe World of States\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury Press, 2015), and \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Vulnerability, States, Nationalism and the Financial Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton University Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald W. Cox is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He has written or edited five books, including \u003ci\u003ePower and Profits: U.S. Policy in Central America\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Kentucky Press 1994), \u003ci\u003eU.S. Politics and the Global Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (with Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Lynne Rienner 1999), and \u003ci\u003eCorporate Power and Globalization in U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge 2012). He is currently finishing \u003ci\u003eTransnational Corporations and the New Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e for Lexington Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard W. Lachmann is Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eStates and Power\u003c\/i\u003e (Polity 2010) and \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology?\u003c\/i\u003e (Polity 2013). He currently is writing a book entitled \u003ci\u003eFirst Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Privilege and the Decline of Great Powers, 1492-2015\u003c\/i\u003e which examines the decline of dominant economic and military powers in early modern Europe and the contemporary United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClarence Y.H. Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, MO. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Property versus Big Government: Social Origins of the Property Tax Revolt \u003c\/i\u003e(Univ. of California Press 1995), co-editor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Policy and the Conservative Agenda\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of numerous articles on elites, the state, and right-wing social movements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Mintz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. She is co-author (with Michael Schwartz) of \u003ci\u003eThe Power Structure of American Business\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Chicago Press 1987) and is currently working on a book on the role of neoliberalism in the crisis in higher education. Her earlier research includes studies of the corporate elite; policy formation within the health care sector; and the intersection of gender, race, and ethnicity in U.S. labor markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph G. Peschek is Professor of Political Science at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a former editor of the scholarly journal \u003ci\u003eNew Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book, co-authored with William F. Grover, is T\u003ci\u003ehe Unsustainable Presidency: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Beyond \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert J.S. Ross is a Research Professor at Clark University's Department of Sociology and the Mosakowski Institute for Public enterprise. He is the author (with Kent Trachte) of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Capitalism: The New Leviathan \u003c\/i\u003e(SUNY Press 1990) and \u003ci\u003eSlaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops\u003c\/i\u003e (Michigan 2004); his recent commentary is found in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospect\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e. A former chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System, Ross was also Chair of the Clark University Faculty Assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel J. Schneider is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Chapman University. His research focuses on race and gender in the areas of work, occupations, labor and politics. He is author of \"Organized Labor and the Unionization of Hispanic, Filipino and Chinese Americans in the United States\" in \u003ci\u003eLabor Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and is currently completing a manuscript, \u003ci\u003eGendering Profession: Experiences of Nursing in the United States. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University, has published extensively in the areas of network analysis, political structure and policy, social movements, political economy, and war and insurgency. Among his scores of articles and seven books are the widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eRadical Protest and Social Structure, \u003c\/i\u003ea pioneering work in historical sociology and social movement analysis; \u003ci\u003eThe Power Structure of American Business \u003c\/i\u003e(with Beth Mintz, ), an award winning analysis of American business structure, and \u003ci\u003eWar Without End, \u003c\/i\u003ea political-economic analysis of the origins and impact of the war in Iraq. His scholarship, journalism, and political commentaries on the U.S. domestic and foreign policy has appeared in numerous academic, popular, and electronic outlets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen C. Schwartzman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She has written about the economic-political connection in Portugal, Cuba, South Africa, Mexico, and, Brazil. Currently she is looking at the impact of China's recent dominance in global garlic exports on Mexico's rural economy. Schwartzman is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas \u003c\/i\u003e(Cornell University Press 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith Stepan-Norris is Professor of Sociology and Vice Provost for Academic Planning at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She previously served as a UCI Equity Advisor, and as Chair of the UCI Academic Senate, the ASA Political Sociology Section, and the ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section. She also served as Co-Editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e and as Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Problems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is author (with Maurice Zeitlin) of \u003ci\u003eLeft Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions \u003c\/i\u003e(Cambridge University Press 2003) and (also with Maurice Zeitlin) \u003ci\u003eTalking Union \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Illinois Press 1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781670830368,"sku":"9781138106994","price":89.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/705bc99b651f3677e30853dd73c0dd72.webp?v=1780555085","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/studying-the-power-elite-fifty-years-of-who-rules-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}