Elites and Power in British Society

Elites and Power in British Society
Title Elites and Power in British Society PDF eBook
Author Philip Stanworth
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 302
Release 1974-05-23
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780521204415

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The Establishment

The Establishment
Title The Establishment PDF eBook
Author Owen Peter Jones
Publisher Melville House Publishing
Pages 386
Release 2015
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1612194877

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Originally published: London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2014.

THE POWER ELITE

THE POWER ELITE
Title THE POWER ELITE PDF eBook
Author C.WRIGHT MILLS
Publisher
Pages 442
Release 1956
Genre
ISBN

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High Society

High Society
Title High Society PDF eBook
Author Pamela Horn
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 1992
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Studying the Power Elite

Studying the Power Elite
Title Studying the Power Elite PDF eBook
Author G. William Domhoff
Publisher Routledge
Pages 261
Release 2017-08-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1351588613

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This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent editions. The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary topics, among them the concerted attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession. These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study of power, not just in the United States, but globally. A brief introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty years—pluralism, Marxism, Millsian elite theory, and historical institutionalism. Then, a chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author of Who Rules America?, takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers, through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone’s thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting the agenda for future studies of power.

Gentlemen Revolutionaries

Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Title Gentlemen Revolutionaries PDF eBook
Author Tom Cutterham
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 207
Release 2017-06-27
Genre History
ISBN 1400885213

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In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.

Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power

Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power
Title Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power PDF eBook
Author Mattéi Dogan
Publisher BRILL
Pages 316
Release 2003
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9789004128088

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This book, prepared under the auspices of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Elites, focuses on the interpenetration between various types of elites. The contributions to this book reveal contrasting patterns of recruitment and selection in terms of career paths, visibility, influence, and power of different elite circles.