Growth, Scale, and Power in Washington State

According to the power-elite hypothesis (Bodley 1999), growth in the scale of sociocultural systems is an elite-directed process that concentrates social power. This hypothesis is tested using a wide range of quantitative data covering all incorporated urban places in the state of Washington. The distribution of household income, property ownership, bank deposits, the form and location of business ownership, and the distribution of business revenues are all examined by scale of urban place. Throughout, it is shown that as urban scale increases economic power becomes more concentrated, and the number of poor households increases. The most equitable distribution of economic power is found in the smallest places that have grown the least

Distribution (mathematics) · Economic geography · Economics · Elite · Geography · Political science · Power (physics) · Revenue · Scale (ratio) · State (computer science) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Finance · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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