دانلود کتاب The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed

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Cover
Front Matter
Half-title
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1-8
Chapter One Elites Under Siege
A Plague on All Your Palaces
Incompetence
Corruption
Unfulfilled Expectation
Unrepresentativeness and Illegitimacy
Rescuers Gone Rogue: Establishments and Bureaucracies
Sniping at Science
Chapter Two Power, Networks and Higher Circles
Softening, Diffusing and Dissolving Power
Structurally Ingraining Power
Power without the Powerful
Power in Networks: Positions over People
‘Deep State’ Distress: The Presidential Pushback
Power in Networks: Strong, Weak and Old-School Ties
Don’t Look Down
Translating the Social Network
Institutional Networks, Interlocks and the ‘Great Vampire Squid’
The New ‘Higher Circles’
Global Business
Government
‘Civil Society’ Organizations
The Indispensable Military
The Performative Elite: Celebrities
A Cognitive Elite? Technocrats, Intellectuals and Experts
Chapter Three Sources of Stability: Elite Circulations and Class Coalitions
Renounce and Renew
Top-Down Transformation
Class Coalitions, and Elites’ Role in Building Them
Elites as Creators and Destroyers of Coalition
Progressive Distributional Coalitions
Conservatives Learn to Trust the Crowd
The Left Keeps Its Class
Contemporary Discontent: The Storms below the Summit
Chapter Four Rousing Rebellion: Elite Fractions and Class Divisions
Reclassifying Classes
Class Divisions in Practice: Characters and Capitals
The Dynamics of Division
An Elusive Elite
Cooperation, Co-optation and Confrontation
The Fragility of Class Coalitions
Militant Middle Classes and Mobilized Mobs
Obsolescent Coalitions? Personalizing Protest Politics
Restoring Order
Chapter Five Politics and Money
Money Buying Power, Power Grabbing Money
The Quest to Separate Policy from Profit
Institutional Power/Money Separation, 1950–70
‘Symbiotic’ Separation, 1970–2000
The Twenty-First-Century Breakdown of Money/Power Separation
Evidence for Plutocracy
Slippage into Oligarchy
Who Buys Influence, and How?
Raw Deals
Chapter Six Inequality: Causes and Consequences
Stretching the Top of the Pyramid
Squeezing the Lower Middle and the Base
The Globalization Grievance
Betrayed by Free Trade
Nation States versus Global Corporations
The Technological Imperative
Financialization and Borderless Money
Retreating from Redistribution
Double-Edged Education
Toleration for Rising Inequality
Worlds Apart
Chapter Seven Elites and Democracy
Why Do Elites Concede Democratization?
Democracy as Elite Protection Strategy
Democracy via Distributional Struggle: The Middle Clash
Less Revolution, More Redistribution
Why Doesn’t a Universal Franchise Cause Elite Expropriation?
National Politics and International Business
Democracy as Consequence of Elite Ascendancy
Political Institutions, Property and Elites
Democracy and the Circulation of Elites
Inequality and Democracy: An Unresolved Tension
Chapter Eight Giveaways and Greed
The Working Rich: Adding Capital and Labour Income
Joining an All-Star Cast
Cult of the Giver
Righteous in Donation
Commercial Philanthropy: When Public Influence Fails
Charities of Fire?
Public Handouts’ Hidden Role: Restoring Elite Cohesion
A Generous Conclusion
End Matter
Afterword: The Best and the Rest
Pluralist Counter- Case
Past Claim
Present Reality
Democratic Dilution
Past Claim
Present Reality
Plutocratic Implosion
Past Claim
Present Reality
‘Elite- Distance’ Calibration
Past Claim
Present Reality
Middle- Ground Moderation
Past Claim
Present Reality
Results Defuse Revolts
Past Claim
Present Reality
Gilt by Association
Past Claim
Present Reality
Media- Manufactured Consent
Past Claim
Present Reality
Restorative Circulation
Past Claim
Present Reality
Elision with Establishment
Past Claim
Present Reality
Plutocracy- Philanthropy Tradeoff
Past Claim
Present Reality
Redistributive Coalitions
Past Claim
Present Reality
References
Index