J Allen Whitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 136007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Allen Whitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitt |
| SIGNATURE | WHITT J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trustees of Culture: Power, Wealth, and Status on Elite Arts Boards
Elite Interlocks in Three U.S. Sectors: Nonprofit, Corporate, and Government
This study traces elite interlocks between the economic, political, and civil sectors of the United States in the late 1990s. We assess integration and fragmentation through analyzing patterns of overlap and interaction among influential organizations and leaders in these sectors. Network analyses are conducted with UCINET 5 on the Elite Directors Database, a new data set composed of the directors/trustees for the largest organizations in the bus…
Gender and Networks in a Local Voluntary-Sector Elite
Focusing on gender inequality in a local community elite, we investigate the role of gender in access to and participation in networks of nonprofit trustees in Louisville, Kentucky. We examine two types of network relations: participation in the network of overlapping board memberships (the “structural network”) and interpersonal ties of collegiality and friendship (the “social network”). Asking whether the gender hierarchy found in most private …
Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 5: The Politics of Wealth and Inequality
The Cultures of Cities
The Power of Collective Purse Strings: The Effects of Bank Hegemony on Corporations and the State
The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
Introduction Part I. Origins and Types of Alternative Organizations: 1. Cooperatives in the late twentieth-century: the democratic impulse and the challenge of oligarchy 2. The organizations studied, the methods used Part II. A Theory of Democratic organization: 3. The collectivist organization: an alternative to bureaucratic models 4. Internal conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations 5. External conditions that facilitate…
Mozart in the Metropolis: The Arts Coalition and the Urban Growth Machine
The performing arts are becoming an important part of the urban growth machine, a development not yet recognized by social scientists. The arts are now a politically acceptable and useful urban growth strategy because of ongoing changes in the nature of cities, in the nature of the economy, and in the nature of the arts themselves, and because of the recent rise of an elite-sponsored political coalition devoted to advancing the strategy. Examples…
Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from…
Corporate Strategies and the Decline of Transit in U.S. Cities
The urban transportation systems that carry us around are not solely the result of technological innovation or efficiency. They are also a product of the rising and sinking political and market power of industrial interest groups, the changing relations among social classes, the politics of urban development struggles, and the inherent dynamics of the economic system. We attempt to show how these factors, particularly corporate control of transpo…
At Last, A Solution to the Pluralist-Elitist Debate
Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr…
Is Oil Different? A Comparison of the Social Backgrounds and Organizational Affiliations of Oil and Non-Oil Directors
This paper examines the internal integration of the U.S. capitalist class. I compare directors of oil companies with non-oil directors on the basis of social class background, membership in social clubs and policy organizations, and participation in more than one board of directors. This comparison is interesting because of the supposed maverick nature of the oil industry. Although there are some differences between oil and non-oil directors, the…
Clinical Sociology
Power: A Radical View
Can Capitalists Organize Themselves
Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power
The paper outlines the characteristics of three competing models of political power: pluralist, elitist, and class-dialectic. The latter model has been neglected by mainstream sociology, particularly at the empirical level of the community. Using systematic case studies of five related political decisions, this study assesses the relative explanatory power of the three models. The analysis demonstrates that the class-dialectic model is highly use…
Society and Environment: The Coming Collision
Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome
Californians, cars and technological death
Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power
The paper outlines the characteristics of three competing models of political power: pluralist, elitist, and class-dialectic. The latter model has been neglected by mainstream sociology, particularly at the empirical level of the community. Using systematic case studies of five related political decisions, this study assesses the relative explanatory power of the three models. The analysis demonstrates that the class-dialectic model is highly use…
Elite Interlocks in Three U.S. Sectors: Nonprofit, Corporate, and Government
This study traces elite interlocks between the economic, political, and civil sectors of the United States in the late 1990s. We assess integration and fragmentation through analyzing patterns of overlap and interaction among influential organizations and leaders in these sectors. Network analyses are conducted with UCINET 5 on the Elite Directors Database, a new data set composed of the directors/trustees for the largest organizations in the bus…
Is Oil Different? A Comparison of the Social Backgrounds and Organizational Affiliations of Oil and Non-Oil Directors
This paper examines the internal integration of the U.S. capitalist class. I compare directors of oil companies with non-oil directors on the basis of social class background, membership in social clubs and policy organizations, and participation in more than one board of directors. This comparison is interesting because of the supposed maverick nature of the oil industry. Although there are some differences between oil and non-oil directors, the…
Gender and Networks in a Local Voluntary-Sector Elite
Focusing on gender inequality in a local community elite, we investigate the role of gender in access to and participation in networks of nonprofit trustees in Louisville, Kentucky. We examine two types of network relations: participation in the network of overlapping board memberships (the “structural network”) and interpersonal ties of collegiality and friendship (the “social network”). Asking whether the gender hierarchy found in most private …
Can Capitalists Organize Themselves
Power: A Radical View
Californians, cars and technological death
Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome
Society and Environment: The Coming Collision
Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power
The paper outlines the characteristics of three competing models of political power: pluralist, elitist, and class-dialectic. The latter model has been neglected by mainstream sociology, particularly at the empirical level of the community. Using systematic case studies of five related political decisions, this study assesses the relative explanatory power of the three models. The analysis demonstrates that the class-dialectic model is highly use…
Clinical Sociology
Power: A Radical View
Can Capitalists Organize Themselves
Is Oil Different? A Comparison of the Social Backgrounds and Organizational Affiliations of Oil and Non-Oil Directors
This paper examines the internal integration of the U.S. capitalist class. I compare directors of oil companies with non-oil directors on the basis of social class background, membership in social clubs and policy organizations, and participation in more than one board of directors. This comparison is interesting because of the supposed maverick nature of the oil industry. Although there are some differences between oil and non-oil directors, the…
Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr…
At Last, A Solution to the Pluralist-Elitist Debate
Corporate Strategies and the Decline of Transit in U.S. Cities
The urban transportation systems that carry us around are not solely the result of technological innovation or efficiency. They are also a product of the rising and sinking political and market power of industrial interest groups, the changing relations among social classes, the politics of urban development struggles, and the inherent dynamics of the economic system. We attempt to show how these factors, particularly corporate control of transpo…
Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from…
Mozart in the Metropolis: The Arts Coalition and the Urban Growth Machine
The performing arts are becoming an important part of the urban growth machine, a development not yet recognized by social scientists. The arts are now a politically acceptable and useful urban growth strategy because of ongoing changes in the nature of cities, in the nature of the economy, and in the nature of the arts themselves, and because of the recent rise of an elite-sponsored political coalition devoted to advancing the strategy. Examples…
The Power of Collective Purse Strings: The Effects of Bank Hegemony on Corporations and the State
The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
Introduction Part I. Origins and Types of Alternative Organizations: 1. Cooperatives in the late twentieth-century: the democratic impulse and the challenge of oligarchy 2. The organizations studied, the methods used Part II. A Theory of Democratic organization: 3. The collectivist organization: an alternative to bureaucratic models 4. Internal conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations 5. External conditions that facilitate…
Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 5: The Politics of Wealth and Inequality
The Cultures of Cities
Gender and Networks in a Local Voluntary-Sector Elite
Focusing on gender inequality in a local community elite, we investigate the role of gender in access to and participation in networks of nonprofit trustees in Louisville, Kentucky. We examine two types of network relations: participation in the network of overlapping board memberships (the “structural network”) and interpersonal ties of collegiality and friendship (the “social network”). Asking whether the gender hierarchy found in most private …
Elite Interlocks in Three U.S. Sectors: Nonprofit, Corporate, and Government
This study traces elite interlocks between the economic, political, and civil sectors of the United States in the late 1990s. We assess integration and fragmentation through analyzing patterns of overlap and interaction among influential organizations and leaders in these sectors. Network analyses are conducted with UCINET 5 on the Elite Directors Database, a new data set composed of the directors/trustees for the largest organizations in the bus…
Trustees of Culture: Power, Wealth, and Status on Elite Arts Boards
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Elite (4 works) · Power (physics (4 works)