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1Article 4Who Rules America?G. William DomhoffPower and Class in the United StatesPower and class are terms that make Americans a little uneasy,and concepts like power elite and dominant class immediatelyput people on guard. The idea that a relatively fixed group ofprivileged people might shape the economy and governmentfor their own benefit goes against the American grain. Never-theless,... the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power fig-ures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agri-businesses come together as a corporate community thatdominates the federal government in Washington. Their real es-tate, construction, and land development companies formgrowth coalitions that dominate most local , there is competition within both the corporate commu-nity and the local growth coalitions for profits and investmentopportunities, and there are sometimes tensions between na-tional corporations and local growth coalitions, but both are co-hesive on policy issues affecting their general welfare, and inthe face of demands by organized workers, liberals, environ-mentalists, and a result of their ability to organize and defend their inter-ests, the owners and managers of large income.
G. William Domhoff Power and Class in the United States Power and class are terms that make Americans a little uneasy, ... direct-mail appeals, and middle-c lass conservatives. This coali-tion has played a large role in both political parties at the presi-
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