Dye,T. Who's Running America? 1983
Dye, Thomas R. Who's Running America? -- The Reagan Years. 3rd edition.
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983. 285 pages.
One of the debates in American sociology is between the "pluralist" and
"elitist" schools of thought. While both agree that America is not ruled by
the masses, the pluralists see this as benign in a society that is more open
than most. For the pluralist, the elites maintain an equilibrium of competing
interests, and the little guy can make himself felt when he wants to by
joining an interest group. Thomas Dye, on the other hand, feels that this
competition is more apparent than real.
In 1972 Dye's graduate students at Florida State University began
collecting data on some 5,000 elite positions, which by this third edition
had expanded to 7,000. His technique, which depends on a definition of
"elite" as a person with institutional affiliations, is to study these
positions at the upper end of the corporate sector (industrial, utilities,
banks, insurance, investments), the public interest sector (media, education,
foundations, law, civic and cultural organizations), and the governmental
sector (legislative, executive, judicial, military). The persons occupying
these positions are noted, and the fact that they frequently hold several
of these positions simultaneously is further evidence of a concentration of
power at the top. In the course of making his argument, Dye names certain
individuals and lists their affiliations.
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