Elites, Ideas, and the Evolution of Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elites, Ideas, and the Evolution of Public Policy write by M. Smyrl. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Elites, Ideas, and the Evolution of Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seen from the outside, the world of politics and policy-making seems to be in constant flux. Combining theoretical analysis with primary research, this book brings new light to the neglected problem of why individuals with a vested interest in current policies nevertheless promote reform.
Studying the Power Elite
Studying the Power Elite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studying the Power Elite write by G. William Domhoff. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Studying the Power Elite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Political Capitalism
Political Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Capitalism write by Randall G. Holcombe. This book was released on 2018-07-19. Political Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political economy. The symptoms of political capitalism are often viewed as the result of government intervention in a market economy, or as attributes of a capitalist economy itself. Randall G. Holcombe combines well-established theories in economics and the social sciences to show that political capitalism is not a mixed economy, or government intervention in a market economy, or some intermediate step between capitalism and socialism. After developing the economic theory of political capitalism, Holcombe goes on to explain how changes in political ideology have facilitated the growth of political capitalism, and what can be done to redirect public policy back toward the public interest.
Political Elites
Political Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Elites write by Geraint Parry. This book was released on 2005. Political Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elites have been described both as the bulwarks of democracy and its very antithesis. Political Elites, first published in 1969, reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals with both the 'classic' elite theorists - Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Burnham and C. Wright Mills - and with many of the empirical and theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political vocabulary - 'elitism', 'power elite', 'establishment', 'elite consensus', 'iron law of oligarchy' and 'mass'. It explores the ways in which the descriptions of power relationships can subtly be infiltrated by the values of the observers. For this ECPR Classics edition Professor Parry has added an introduction reviewing significant new developments in elite political science.
The Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power, and American Democracy
The Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power, and American Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power, and American Democracy write by Kenneth Prewitt. This book was released on 1973. The Ruling Elites: Elite Theory, Power, and American Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
