G William Domhoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 126887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G William Domhoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | G William |
| FAMILY NAME | Domhoff |
| SIGNATURE | DOMHOFF G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3628-8555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 99 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 99 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The relationship between dreaming and autonoetic consciousness: The neurocognitive theory of dreaming gains in explanatory power by drawing upon the multistate hierarchical model of consciousness
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: Corporations, Policy-Oriented Nonprofits, and the Inner Circle in 1935-1936 and 2010-2011
Using a combination of network analysis and descriptive statistics, this study examines the extent to which six important and longstanding policy-oriented nonprofit organizations - foundations, think tanks, and policy-discussion groups - were connected via their directors with the 250 largest corporations in the United States in 1935-1936 and 2010-2011. The results demonstrate that the six nonprofit organizations included in the study were well i…
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981-2002: The Role of the Policy-Planning Network
Recent empirical work has offered strong support for 'biased pluralism' and 'economic elite' accounts of political power in the United States, according a central role to 'business interest groups' as a mechanism through which corporate influence is exerted. Here, we propose an additional channel of influence for corporate interests: the 'policy-planning network,' consisting of corporate-dominated foundations, think tanks, and elite policy-discus…
Who Rules America: The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s
At this crucial moment in American history, when voting rights could be expanded to include all citizens, or legislatively limited, this significantly updated edition of Who Rules America? shows precisely how the top 1% of the population, who own 43% of all financial wealth, and receive 20% of the nation’s yearly income, dominate governmental decision-making. They have created a corporate community and a policy-planning network, made up of founda…
Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition
This book provides a new perspective on the origins of the three most important New Deal policies—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act—while examining the strengths and weaknesses of historical institutionalism, Marxism, protest-disruption theory, and non-Marxian class-dominance theory
Reply to Mageo (2019): Four assertions I did not make about dreams
Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal
This book first makes clear that, contrary to iconic postwar biographers, President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt had a clear agenda in mind throughout his campaign, however general or vague he could sound for political purposes, such as eliminating alternatives that were likely to fail or already had failed. He stood for immediate unemployment relief, building public infrastructure, government subsidies for farm and plantation incomes, government …
From adolescence to young adulthood in two dream series: The consistency and continuity of characters and major personal interests
Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century: How They Won, Why Liberals and Labor Lost
The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and created the government structures that allowed them to dominate the United States. The book is framed within three historical developments that have made this domination possible: the rise and fall of the union movement, the initiation and subsequent limitation of government social-benefit programs…
The neurocognitive theory of dreams at age 20: An assessment and a comparison with four other theories of dreaming
Can stimulus-incorporation and emotion-assimilation theorists revive the continuity hypothesis they deprived of cognitive meaning? A reply to Jenkins
Iranians' beliefs about dreams: Developing and validating the My Beliefs about Dreams Questionnaire
Are dreams social simulations? Or are they enactments of conceptions and personal concerns? An empirical and theoretical comparison of two dream theories
Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America
Now an invasion by a Freudian concept-snatcher: Reply to Erdelyi
The invasion of the concept snatchers: The origins, distortions, and future of the continuity hypothesis
The Myth of Liberal Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession
Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the present day. While FDR's New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tide turned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every major new economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of …
Dreaming and the default network: A review, synthesis, and counterintuitive research proposal
Correcting for multiple comparisons in studies of dream content: A statistical addition to the Hall/Van de Castle coding system
University of California, Santa CruzThis article addresses the issue of potential false positives when multiple tests arecarried out in comparing 2 samples with the content indicators used in the Hall andVan de Castle (1966) coding system for dream content. Using an algorithm based onthe Benjamini–Hochberg (Benjamini & Hochberg, 1995) correction for the FalseDiscovery Rate, it first compares findings for men and women in a large normativesample; …
Assessing autocorrelation in studies using the Hall and Van de Castle coding system to study individual dream series
Dreaming as embodied simulation: A widower's dreams of his deceased wife
Bottom-up or top-down in dream neuroscience? A top-down critique of two bottom-up studies
Content analysis of Iranian college students' dreams: Comparison with American data
This article analyzes gender differences in the dream content of Iranian college students and compares the findings with normative American findings and with findings from studies of Indian and Japanese college students. The study utilized 218 dream reports collected with the Most Recent Dream method from 103 females and 115 males at the University of Tehran in Tehran. In general, the Iranian findings are similar to findings in the American, Indi…
The neural substrate for dreaming: Is it a subsystem of the default network
The higher circles; the governing class in America
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations: A Network Study of Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
Dans son introduction et a partir du compte rendu de la litterature existante, l'auteur presente les diverses critiques des theses de C. Wright Mills sur l'existence d'une elite aux commandes du pouvoir politique et economique des Etats-Unis. Si ces critiques ne contestent pas l'existence d'une telle elite, elles mettent en question son emprise sur le pouvoir en affirmant que sa coherence n'est pas etablie. Le travail de l'auteur a ete largement …
A new neurocognitive theory of dreams
Discoveries in three distinct areas of dream research make it possible to suggest the outlines of a new neurocognitive theory of dreaming. The first relevant findings come from assessments of patients with brain injuries, which show that lesions in different areas have differential effects on dreaming and thereby imply the contours of the neural network necessary for dreaming. The second set of results comes from work with children ages 3–15 in t…
Corporate-Liberal Theory and the Social Security Act: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge
New directions in the study of dream content using the Hall and Van de Castle coding system
Both methodological and statistical innovations add to the usefulness of the Hall and Van de Castle system for the content analysis of dream reports. In addition, there are weaknesses in most rating scales for the study of dream content, and numerous methodological and statistical problems call into question many past studies of dream content. In an introduction to this special issue, these possibilities and problems are discussed and then demons…
C. Wright Mills, Power Structure Research, and the Failures of Mainstream Political Science
Power Reconsidered” was the theme of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in 2006. In a steady stream of analytically focused and empirically rich books and articles over the last 40 years, G. William Domhoff had made a unique and challenging contribution to the study of power and politics in the United States. In this commentary, based on a presentation at an APSA panel sponsored by the New Political Science section, …
The most recent dreams of 12-13 year-old boys and girls: A methodological contribution to the study of dream content in teenagers
The present study shows that the Most Recent Dream Method developed for the efficient and economical collection of dream reports from adults can be extended to suburban Caucasian 12–13 year-old boys and girls. A content analysis of 162 Most Recent Dreams from girls and 110 Most Recent Dreams from boys using the Hall and Van de Castle (1996) coding system revealed the same general pattern of gender similarities and differences found in the dream c…
The Power Elite and Their Challengers: The Role of Nonprofits in American Social Conflict
Drawing on findings in the literature on power structure research, this article argues that many of the biggest and most important nonprofit organizations are central components in the ongoing conflict between the corporate community and the power elite on the one side and the liberal-labor coalition and progressive social movements on the other. The article overviews five case studies to demonstrate the role of various types of nonprofits in spe…
Much ado about very little: The small effect sizes when home and laboratory collected dreams are compared
We report a reanalysis of the original codings of dream reports collected at home and in the sleep laboratory from the same participants studied by Hall and Van de Castle in 1964. We used Cohen'sh statistic for effect sizes to argue that, even when statistically significant, most of the differences between the two samples are small to medium in magnitude. This finding suggests that past arguments over the relative usefulness of the two types of s…
The invasion of the concept snatchers: The origins, distortions, and future of the continuity hypothesis
Detecting meaning in dream reports: An extension of a word search approach
Mills's The Power Elite 50 Years Later
The dreams of blind men and women: A replication and extension of previous findings
Drawing on a sample of 372 dreams from 15 blind adults, we present two separate analyses that replicate and extend findings from previous studies. The first analysis employed DreamSearch, a software program designed for use with dream narratives, to examine the appearance of the five sensory modalities. It revealed that those blind since birth or very early childhood had (1) no visual imagery and (2) a very high percentage of gustatory, olfactory…
Drawing theoretical implications from descriptive empirical findings on dream content
The theoretical implications of four firmly established descriptive empirical findings concerning dream content are spelled out. The four established findings are: (1) the undeveloped nature of dream content in very young children; (2) the several similarities between dreaming and waking cognition; (3) the continuity of dream content with waking emotional concerns; and (4) the consistency of dream content over years and even decades in adults. It…
Are dreams social simulations? Or are they enactments of conceptions and personal concerns? An empirical and theoretical comparison of two dream theories
Corporations, the Civic Sector, and Government: Do They Interlock
Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital
Why Did Empirical Dream Researchers Reject Freud? A Critique of Historical Claims by Mark Solms
Neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms (1997) made a major contribution to dream research through his clinico-anatomical studies, which reveal the outlines of the neural network that underlies dreaming. However, in more recent work he misunderstands the history of the rapid eye movement (REM)/non-REM (NREM) controversy in a Freudian-serving way and ignores the considerable systematic empirical evidence that contradicts the key claims of t…
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: Corporations, Policy-Oriented Nonprofits, and the Inner Circle in 1935-1936 and 2010-2011
Using a combination of network analysis and descriptive statistics, this study examines the extent to which six important and longstanding policy-oriented nonprofit organizations - foundations, think tanks, and policy-discussion groups - were connected via their directors with the 250 largest corporations in the United States in 1935-1936 and 2010-2011. The results demonstrate that the six nonprofit organizations included in the study were well i…
Dreaming as embodied simulation: A widower's dreams of his deceased wife
Refocusing the Neurocognitive Approach to Dreams: A Critique of the Hobson Versus Solms Debate
Nonprofit Organizations and the Corporate Community
Correcting for multiple comparisons in studies of dream content: A statistical addition to the Hall/Van de Castle coding system
University of California, Santa CruzThis article addresses the issue of potential false positives when multiple tests arecarried out in comparing 2 samples with the content indicators used in the Hall andVan de Castle (1966) coding system for dream content. Using an algorithm based onthe Benjamini–Hochberg (Benjamini & Hochberg, 1995) correction for the FalseDiscovery Rate, it first compares findings for men and women in a large normativesample; …
Content analysis of Iranian college students' dreams: Comparison with American data
This article analyzes gender differences in the dream content of Iranian college students and compares the findings with normative American findings and with findings from studies of Indian and Japanese college students. The study utilized 218 dream reports collected with the Most Recent Dream method from 103 females and 115 males at the University of Tehran in Tehran. In general, the Iranian findings are similar to findings in the American, Indi…
American State Autonomy via the Military? Another Counterattack on a Theoretical Delusion
This paper presents a critique of the claim in Gregory Hooks' Forging the Military-Industrial Complex (1991) that the industrial mobilization for Word War II led to autonomy for the Pentagon. It argues instead that a coalition of corporate leaders and military officers dominated decision-making on industrial mobilization, despite opposition from a New Deal, liberal/labor coalition rooted in unions, universities, government appointments, and the m…
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations: A Network Study of Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
Dans son introduction et à partir du compte rendu de la littérature existante, l'auteur présente les diverses critiques des thèses de C. Wright Mills sur l'existence d'une élite aux commandes du pouvoir politique et économique des Etats-Unis. Si ces critiques ne contestent pas l'existence d'une telle élite, elles mettent en question son emprise sur le pouvoir en affirmant que sa cohérence n'est pas établie. Le travail de l'auteur a été largement …
A Paper-and-Pencil Study of Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis
Who Rules America
Fat Cats and Democrats
Report on the Second Annual West Coast Socialist Sociology Conference
Political Elites Reconsidered: Process, Consequences, and Values
Watergate: Conflict and antagonisms within the power elite
Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
Analyzing Power Structures
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations: A Network Study of Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
Dans son introduction et a partir du compte rendu de la litterature existante, l'auteur presente les diverses critiques des theses de C. Wright Mills sur l'existence d'une elite aux commandes du pouvoir politique et economique des Etats-Unis. Si ces critiques ne contestent pas l'existence d'une telle elite, elles mettent en question son emprise sur le pouvoir en affirmant que sa coherence n'est pas etablie. Le travail de l'auteur a ete largement …
Recent Work on Elites
The Ruling Class and the Women's Page
Who really rules?: New Haven and community power reexamined
The powers that be: Processes of ruling-class domination in America
New Life for a Tired Area: Another Look at Community Power
Corporations, the Civic Sector, and Government: Do They Interlock
Latent classes and group membership
Power Structure Research
Brings together contributions by some of the leading young researchers in the field of power structure research -- the study of how the upper class is positioned within society. They describe the current state of the subfield, and what further lines of investigation are being pursued. Topics include the family office, the backing of ballot initiatives, businessmen in governmental advisory committees, and how businessmen work to influence local po…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
The purpose of this special issue of Social Science History is to bring together in one coherent whole recent findings on the nature of the American corporate network from its beginnings to the present day. Based on objective data accumulated from a variety of archival sources, and relying on rigorous statistical methodologies, the unexpected picture of continuity and cohesion presented in this issue raises problems for many widely held beliefs a…
Nonprofit Organizations and the Corporate Community
Jews in the Protestant Establishment
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations: A Network Study of Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
Dans son introduction et à partir du compte rendu de la littérature existante, l'auteur présente les diverses critiques des thèses de C. Wright Mills sur l'existence d'une élite aux commandes du pouvoir politique et économique des Etats-Unis. Si ces critiques ne contestent pas l'existence d'une telle élite, elles mettent en question son emprise sur le pouvoir en affirmant que sa cohérence n'est pas établie. Le travail de l'auteur a été largement …
Power structure research in America and the promise of democracy
Reaganomics in theory and practice : its ups and downs. Reaganomics was based on the assumption that tax cats could spur individual initiative and promote economic growth, whereas increased military expenditures could enhance the US's world stature. In spite of its promise, Reaganomics finally engineered an economic recovery with huge budget deficits and high private consumption leading to record deficits of the balances of trade and payments
Domhoff's Contribution
The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy: The Ideology of Philanthropy
"On "Welfare Capitalism and the Social Security Act of 1935
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