Political Inequalities

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Who Runs America?
The democratic nature of America holds that, regardless of the dominant rich holding significant power dominance, the lower social class is not entirely powerless. However, from a general outlook and in what may appear to be obvious is that power remains to be in the hands of those who have the money. Even so, the underlying complexities within which the economy continues to be at the center of power demonstrate the perspective of combination that drums up to form the power elite.
William Domhoff’s Who Runs America Power and Politics, factors that, the corporate owners team up with the top-level executives drawn from the corporate community and from the non-profit policy groups to form the power elite (247). The power elite achieves the idea of dominance as a capacity to produce intended and foreseen outcomes on others through the widespread network giving them latitude on the investment function through corporate community dominance of the economy and access to the influence of policy formation (Domhoff, 248). At the core of the power, elite is the social upper class that only forms an estimated 1 percent of the overall population but remains to be over-represented in corporate boards, non-profit organization and the government (Domhoff, 131). The involvement of the power elite in critical decision making and their access to what the American society holds to high value allows them to win, to benefit and to govern.

The author, William Domhoff convincingly shows that the power elite runs America through its increased latitude and strength to have real influence over government. The strength of the power elite on the economy and policy formation allows for their involvement to count for more because wealth and income distribution are aligned to their favor. Although power structures change from time to time, the power elite remains to run America due to their dominance on economic and policy formation backed by the wealth and high incomes of the upper social class.
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Domhoff , G William. Who Rules America?: Power and Politics in the Year 2000. California: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1998. Document.