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Tables of Contents for Who's Running America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Elitism in a Democracy
1
12
The Inevitability of Elites
2
1
The 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
207
1
207
1
208
1