Studying the power elite: fifty years of who rules America?

Setting the stage, providing context -- Introduction situating who rules America? : within debates on power / G. William Domhoff -- Who rules America? : through seven editions and 50 years : still more accurate than alternative power theories / G. William Domhoff -- Larger perspectives and research agendas -- Domhoff, mills and slow power / Robert J.S. Ross -- The life and times of who rules America? : and the future of power structure research / Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz -- Institutions, policy-planning networks, and who rules America? / John L. Campbell -- The policy-planning network in action -- The policy-planning network, class dominance, and the challenge to political science / Joseph G. Peschek -- Who rules America? : and the policy-formation network : the case of venture philanthropy / Beth Mintz -- Corporate interests and US foreign policy / Ronald W. Cox -- The power elite and their opponents -- Who challenges the power elite? : labor factions in 20th century America / Daniel Schneider and Judith Stepan-Norris -- Who rules the roost? the poultry elite and their adversaries / Kathleen C. Schwartzman -- "Fairness" in presidential economic policy : disagreements among upper class elites and the liberal-labor coalition clarence / Y. H. Lo

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION ONE Setting the Stage, Providing Context -- Introduction: Situating Who Rules America? Within Debates on Power -- 1 Who Rules America? Through Seven Editions and Fifty Years: Still More Accurate Than Alternative Power Theories -- SECTION TWO Larger Perspectives and Research Agendas -- 2 Domhoff, Mills, and Slow Power -- 3 The Life and Times of Who Rules America? and the Future of Power Structure Research -- 4 Institutions, Policy-Planning Networks, and Who Rules America? -- SECTION THREE The Policy-Planning Network in Action -- 5 The Policy-Planning Network, Class Dominance, and the Challenge to Political Science -- 6 Who Rules America? And the Policy-Formation Network: The Case of Venture Philanthropy -- 7 Corporate Interests and U.S. Foreign Policy -- SECTION FOUR The Power Elite and Their Opponents -- 8 Who Challenges the Power Elite? Labor Factions in 20th-Century America -- 9 Who Rules the Roost? -- 10 "Fairness" in Presidential Economic Policy: Disagreements Among Upper-Class Elites -- Index