An edition of American elites (1996)

American elites

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An edition of American elites (1996)

American elites

This detailed and fascinating portrait of America's elite leaders is based on interviews with more than 1800 members of ten strategic leadership groups - including federal judges, business executives, religious leaders, high-level bureaucrats, military leaders, labor union chiefs, lawyers, leading journalists, and motion picture and television magnates.

The results of the survey - the most comprehensive ever conducted on America's elite groups - enable the authors to examine and analyze elite groups' structure and current social and political tensions in American society.

The authors begin by examining elite theory in political science and sociology. Rejecting power elite, ruling class, and "new class" theories, they propose the concept of competing "strategic elites" as the most accurate characterization of the structure of power in the U.S.

Their study compares the backgrounds, ideological differences, and predominant personality characteristics of members of the different elite groups and reveals that leadership groups in the U.S. are sharply divided in complex ways on various issues.

Catholic religious leaders, for example, are quite liberal on economic issues but very conservative on cultural issues while the Hollywood elite is moderate on economic issues, quite liberal on cultural issues, and much more alienated from American society than are members of other leadership groups.

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English
Pages
176

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American elites
1996, Yale University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.

Published in
New Haven

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.5/2/0973
Library of Congress
HN90.E4 L47 1996, HN90.E4L47 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 176 p. ;
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL979070M
Internet Archive
americanelites0000lern
ISBN 10
0300065345
LCCN
96016343
OCLC/WorldCat
34515176
Goodreads
1574428

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