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Who Rules America?
1967 book by G. William Domhoff From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Who Rules America? is a book by research psychologist and sociologist G. William Domhoff, Ph.D., published in 1967 as a best-seller (#12).
WRA is frequently assigned as a sociology textbook, documenting the dangerous concentration of power and wealth in the American upper class.[1] More recent editions have brought the discussion up to date, including the rise of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and the trend toward nationalism in the Republican Party.[2]
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Summary
Domhoff argues in the book(s) that a power elite wields power in America transparently through its support of think tanks, foundations, commissions, and academic departments.[3] Additionally, he argues that the elite controls institutions through overt authority, not through covert influence.[4]
In his introduction, Domhoff writes that the book was inspired by the work of four previous researchers: sociologists E. Digby Baltzell, C. Wright Mills, economist Paul Sweezy, and political scientist Robert A. Dahl.[5]
The University of California, Santa Cruz hosts Domhoff's Who Rules America? web site.[6]
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Publication history
The original edition was followed by seven subsequent editions:[7]
- Who Rules America Now? (1983)
- Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000 (1998)
- Who Rules America? Power and Politics (2002)
- Who Rules America? Power, Politics, & Social Change (2006)
- Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance (2010)
- Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich (2014)
- Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America (2017)
- Who Rules America? The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s (2022)
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