The links in this page are to student papers for a class taught at Clark University by sociologist Bruce London. But similar links are welcome from anywhere in the world; contact Bill Domhoff if you have additional documents that might be appropriate for this section.

Bruce London, Clark University

Students in Professor London's first-year intensive course, SOC 033: Who Rules America?, conducted a series of studies of the distribution of power in our society. (Some related projects from SOC 200: Class, Status and Power may also be included.)

• A syllabus describing course objectives, research projects, and data sources [.docx]

Papers by Professor London's students:

• Corporate Interests and Charter Schools [.docx]
• The Relative Economic Power of the Corporate Community vs. Labor [.docx]
• The Koch Brothers' Policy Planning Network [.docx]
• A larger version of the Koch sociogram [.docx]
• A State-Level Policy Planning Network [.docx]
• Money and Politics II: Outside Spending and the Relative Economic Power of Conservatives/Industries vs. Liberals/Labor, 2004-2014 [.pdf]
• Money and Policy: Corporate Funding and The Freedom Caucus's Anti-Environmental Agenda [.pdf]

To see more about how professors can use Who Rules America? in the classroom, check out "Teaching about Corporate Power: Analyses of a Policy Planning Network" (London, Lucier, & Hare-Drubka, 2013) and "Teaching Who Rules America?" (Tenenbaum & Ross, 2006).