Domhoff¡¦s book ¡§Who Rules America¡¨ claims that owners and managers of large corporations develop policy unity to shape government policies. This type of domination is carried out with relatively little resistance because they¡¦ve been able to establish the rules and customs of which our lifestyle is based upon. This leads to Domhoff¡¦s class domination theory of power.
The distributed power of the dominant class is based on its structural economic power where the corporation officials try to create favorable investment situations to increase profits and inevitably power. The ability to create new policies through the policy-planning network is made possible by the upper class because ¡§common economic interests and social cohesion have giving the corporate community enough unity to sustain such an endeavor over many decades¡¨ (p.182).
The system of government formed by the Founding Fathers is rather fragmented and constrained which leads us to......

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