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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).

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WRA is frequently assigned as a sociology textbook and documents the dangerous concentration of power and wealth in the American upper class.[1] More recent editions have brought the discussion up to date and include the rise of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and the trend toward nationalism in the Republican Party.[2]

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 control 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]

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)

References

  1. [1]
    "WhoRulesAmerica.net".
  2. [2]
    "Who Rules America? (8th edition): The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s".
  3. [3]
    World of Sociology. Gale. November 2000. ISBN 978-0-7876-4965-4.
  4. [4]
    Miller, Kenneth E. (1967). "Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff". Journal of Politics. 31: 565–567. doi:10.2307/2128630. JSTOR 2128630.
  5. [5]
    Domhoff, G. William (1976). Who Rules America? p. 1. ISBN 0139583637.
  6. [6]
    "Who Rules America?" whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu.
  7. [7]
    "Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America?" (2017). Routledge.
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