Who Rules America?  By G. William Domhoff, University of California at Santa Cruz

Who Rules America?

The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s

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G. William Domhoff

Published by Routledge, 2022

At this crucial moment in American history, when voting rights could be expanded to include all citizens — or legislatively limited — this significantly updated edition of Who Rules America? shows precisely how the top 1% of the population, who own 43% of all financial wealth, and receive 20% of the nation's yearly income, dominate governmental decision-making. They have created a corporate community and a policy-planning network, made up of foundations think-tanks, and policy-discussion groups, to develop the polices that become law. Through a leadership group called the power elite, the corporate rich provide campaign donations and other gifts and favors to elected officials, serve on federal advisory committees, and receive appointments to key positions in government, all of which make it possible for the corporate rich and the power elite to rule the country, despite constant challenges from the inclusionary alliance and from the Democratic Party. The book explains the role of both benign and dark attempts to influence public opinion, the machinations of the climate-denial network, and how the Supreme Court came to have an ultraconservative majority, who serve as a backstop for the corporate community as well as a legitimator of restrictions on voting rights, union rights, and abortion rights, by ruling that individual states have the power to set such limits. Despite all this highly concentrated power, it will be the other 99%, not the top 1%, who will decide the fate of the United States in the 2020s on all the important issues.

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Contents

  • Chapter 1: Concepts, Definitions, and Power Indicators
  • Chapter 2: The Corporate Community
  • Chapter 3: The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
  • Chapter 4: The Corporate Rich, The Policy-Planning Network, and the Power Elite
  • Chapter 5: The Role of Public Opinion
  • Chapter 6: Parties and Elections
  • Chapter 7: How the Power Elite Dominate Government
  • Chapter 8: Examining the American Power Structure in a Wider Perspective

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