Exam 14: Power and Politics

One factor that has given rise to the sudden emergence of the power elite is________.

Identify three criticisms of the power elite theory of C. Wright Mills.

One criticism of Domhoff's theory is his Marxian economic determinism.

Which of the following demonstrate(s) that the U.S. foreign policy seems to be carried on in the light of the needs of the munitions makers, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the multinational corporations?

The more active role in the economy played by the government in the latter part of the nineteenth century led to protection of small farmers from competition by tariffs, public subsidies, price regulation, patents, and trademarks.

The government's common solution for runaway inflation is to increase ________.

One criticism of Domhoff's theory is his________.

Domhoff regards the legislative branch of the federal government as free of control by the dominant class.

Domhoff's theory of power is referred to as the ________.

In large complex societies, decisions are made by a few people, but in a democracy it is necessary that these few be representatives of the masses and therefore subject to their influence.

One of the most undemocratic features of the U.S. political system is how campaigns are financed. Discuss how campaigns are both legally and illegally financed.

During the nineteenth century, the government remained laissez-faire only in relation to the common people, giving little attention to poverty, unemployment, working conditions, child labor, and the spoiling of natural resources.

A careful analysis of the military reveals that it is a tax on the poor.

One criticism of Mills' theory is________.

The legislative proposals of Teddy Roosevelt________.

In Domhoff's view, the dominant class directly controls Congress and state and local governments.

According to Mills, the most powerful leaders of the power elite, which reigns over the three sectors of the power structure, come from ________.

At times nearly everyone benefits from the way power is concentrated in the United States, but for the most part the decisions made tend to benefit the majority.

According to C. Wright Mills, the power elite is composed of leaders of three sectors, the most powerful of which are________.

Although the pharmaceutical industry argues that it must charge high prices on drugs to recoup its costly research, it was found that public research led to fifteen of the twenty-one drugs considered to have the highest therapeutic value introduced between 1965 and 1992.