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Sources Of Continued Corporate Dominance, Joshua Murray, Megan L. Jordan
Sources Of Continued Corporate Dominance, Joshua Murray, Megan L. Jordan
Class, Race and Corporate Power
How do we make sense of the policy implications of the numerous corporate elites appointed to positions in government? The board interlock network served as a reliable map of power for most of the 20th century. With the decline of the interlock network over the last few decades, we are left without a reliable map of corporate power, leading to a theory of a fractured corporate elite that is ineffectual in its collective policy influence.
In this article, we argue that the fractured elite thesis overlooks two factors that counteract the decline of the domestic interlock network- a stable …