No one denies that corporations have abundant power in the society, for example: they have the power to hire and fire workers, decide where to invest their resources, and use their income in a variety of tax-deductible ways to sway schools, charities, and governments (Domhoff, 2012). The disagreement starts over whether the large corporations are unified enough to use joint social power, and leads to the question of whether they are still controlled by members of the upper class (Domhoff, 2012). "Who benefits?" and "who sits?" are seen as valid power indicators, on the assumption that "power" is an underlying social trait that can be indexed by a variety of imperfect indicators, then the kind of evidence briefly outlined here will be seen as a very strong case for the dominant role of the power elite in the federal government (Domhoff,
No one denies that corporations have abundant power in the society, for example: they have the power to hire and fire workers, decide where to invest their resources, and use their income in a variety of tax-deductible ways to sway schools, charities, and governments (Domhoff, 2012). The disagreement starts over whether the large corporations are unified enough to use joint social power, and leads to the question of whether they are still controlled by members of the upper class (Domhoff, 2012). "Who benefits?" and "who sits?" are seen as valid power indicators, on the assumption that "power" is an underlying social trait that can be indexed by a variety of imperfect indicators, then the kind of evidence briefly outlined here will be seen as a very strong case for the dominant role of the power elite in the federal government (Domhoff,