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G. William Domhoff

Author of Who Rules America? Power, Politics, and Social Change

29 Works 671 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

G. William Domhoff is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Includes the names: Wiliam Domhoff, Wiliam Domhoff, William G. Domhoff, G. William Domhoff, G. William Domhoff, Ed.

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Works by G. William Domhoff

Who Rules America? Power, Politics, and Social Change (1967) 275 copies
Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness (1974) 52 copies
Who Rules America Now?: A View for the 80's (1983) 48 copies
Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America (1978) 38 copies, 1 review
The higher circles; the governing class in America (1971) 32 copies
C. Wright Mills and The power elite (1968) — Compiler — 25 copies
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America (Social Institutions and Social Change) (1990) 24 copies, 1 review
The Mystique of Dreams: A Search for Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory (1985) 22 copies
Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich (2013) 20 copies
The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis (2003) 17 copies
Who Really Rules?: New Haven and Community Power Reexamined (1978) 15 copies
Changing the Powers That Be: How the Left Can Stop Losing and Win (2003) 15 copies
The Myth of Liberal Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession (2013) 14 copies
State Autonomy or Class Dominance?: Case Studies on Policy Making in America (Social Institutions and Social Change) (1996) 10 copies
Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition (Studies in… (2011) 10 copies
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1936-08-06
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Nationality
USA

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The power elite and the state how policy is made in… by G. William Domhoff
This is difficult to read as it asks the reader to wade through a lot of theoretical principals....but what is REALLY useful is detail accounts of the development and passage of the Social Security Act, Wagner Act (wonderful history of 50 years of the development of US labor law, a detailed history of the Council on Foreign Relations, and though my edition is 25 years old, a relevant chapter that brings us to where we are now:Decline of Disruption and the Decline of Conservatism.pp257-282.

Yes 25 years later some of the same people are still around
The Bush family with a 2d son considering Rebuplican presidential nomination, Carter, soing strong with his Center and Library,… (more)
 
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