C. Wright Mills, Power Structure Research, and the Failures of Mainstream Political Science

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ID6308447
AuthorsG William Domhoff (0000-0003-3628-8555, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume29
Issue1
Pages97-114
Publication date2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07393140601170867
OpenAlexW2141651279
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited61

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, Domhoff criticizes the narrow and misleading ways in which the concept of power has been used by pluralist, state autonomy, and historical institutionalism approaches in political science. Drawing on the path-breaking work of C. Wright Mills and Floyd Hunter in the 1950s, Domhoff restates and develops his class and organizational interpretation of the American power structure. As a progressive and scholarly journal, New Political Science encourages authors to submit research articles that engage with the theoretical questions raised by Dornhoff

Autonomy · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Wright · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Political Science Research and Education · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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