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Who's Running America? : The Bush Restoration

ISBN: 9780130974624 | 0130974625
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 12/27/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in Leadership and the Presidency in departments of political science.Arguing that the power in America is concentrated in large institutions this book studies the people at the top of these institutions who they are, how much power they wield, and how they came to power. A best-seller in leadership courses and introduction to political science, Tom Dye has chronicled the national leadership since the Nixon-Ford years, each edition featuring the current president and his staff. The seventh edition focuses on the new Bush administrati... MORE
Prefaceix
Elitism in a Democracy
1(12)
The Inevitability of Elites
2(1)
... MOREThe Institutional Basis of Power
3(2)
Power as Decision-Making: The Pluralist View
5(2)
Identifying Positions of Power
7(3)
Dimensions of America's Elite
10(1)
Some Questions for Research
11(2)
The Corporate Directors
13(26)
The Concentration of Economic Power
13(3)
The Globalization of Economic Power
16(2)
Institutionalizing the Global Economy
18(3)
Who Controls Corporate America?
21(3)
The Managers: Climbing the Corporate Ladder
24(2)
The Inheritors: Starting at the Top
26(4)
Paychecks of the Corporate Chiefs
30(1)
Corporate Counterrevolutions
30(1)
The Battle for IBM
31(2)
Hostile Takeovers
33(2)
The Limits of Corporate Power
35(2)
Summary
37(2)
The Money Elite
39(16)
The Concentration of Financial Resources
39(2)
The Banking Boardrooms
41(2)
Banking ``Reform''
43(2)
The Federal Reserve Board
45(1)
Controlling the Money Supply
46(1)
Alan Greenspan: Ruling over Money
47(1)
The Securities and Exchange Commission
48(1)
The Superrich: Distinguishing Wealth from Power
49(5)
Summary
54(1)
The Governing Circles
55(42)
The Concentration of Governmental Power
56(1)
The Fat Cat Contributors
57(1)
The Politicians: Ambition and Office Seeking
58(4)
Bill Clinton: The Political Climber
62(5)
The Bush Family Dynasty
67(6)
Executive Decision-Makers: The Serious People
73(4)
The Bush Restoration
77(5)
The Congressional Establishment
82(2)
Ted Kennedy: The Political Inheritor
84(2)
Hillary Clinton: Power and Ambition
86(2)
The Judges
88(5)
The Military Establishment
93(2)
Summary
95(2)
The Media Moguls
97(18)
Agenda-Setting: Deciding What Will Be Decided
97(2)
The Concentration of Media Power
99(4)
Ted Turner: Maverick Media Mogul
103(1)
Katherine Graham: The Most Powerful Woman in America
104(2)
The Celebrity Newsmakers
106(1)
Bad News and Good Profits
107(1)
Liberal Bias in the News
108(2)
Prime Time: Socializing the Masses
110(2)
Summary
112(3)
The Civic Establishment
115(20)
The American ``Establishment''
115(2)
The ``Superlawyers''
117(4)
The ``Fixers'': Pedding Power for Profit
121(2)
The Foundations
123(3)
The Policy-Planning Organizations
126(5)
The Billion Dollar Universities
131(2)
Summary
133(2)
The Structure of Institutional Power
135(36)
Questions in Elite Research
135(1)
Convergence or Specialization at the Top?
136(1)
Sources of Elite Cohesion
137(2)
``Interlockers'' and ``Specialists''
139(3)
The Rockefellers: End of a Dynasty?
142(4)
Elite Recruitment: Getting to the Top
146(4)
Class: A Touchy Subject
150(2)
African Americans at the Top
152(2)
Women at the Top
154(4)
Elite Factionalism: Cowboys and Yankees
158(7)
The New Tycoons
165(3)
Summary
168(3)
How Institutional Elites Make Public Policy
171(32)
Policy as Elite Preference
171(1)
An Oligarchical Model of National Policy-Making
172(3)
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
175(5)
The Business Roundtable and the Committee on Economic Development
180(4)
The Brookings Institution
184(3)
Competition among Elites: AEI and Heritage
187(4)
Liberal and Conservative Factions among Elites
191(3)
The ``Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy''
194(6)
The ``Proximate Policy-Makers''
200(1)
Summary
201(2)
Institutional Elites in America
203(12)
Institutional Power in America Hierarchy and Polyarchy among Institutional Elites
204(3)
Summary of Findings
207(5)
Concentration of Institutional Resources
207(1)
The Size of the Nation's Elite
207(1)
Interlocking versus Specialization
208(1)
Inheritors versus Climbers
208(1)
Separate Channels of Recruitment
208(1)
Social Class and Elite Recruitment
209(1)
Conflict and Consensus among Elites
209(1)
Factionalism among Elites
210(1)
An Oligarchic Model of National Policy-Making
211(1)
Power: Inside and Outsider Views
212(1)
Who's Running America?
212(3)
Index215

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