G. William Domhoff

G. William Domhoff, who goes by "Bill," is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Born into an apolitical middle-American family in what he and his friends thought of as the Midwest (Ohio), he received his B.A. at Duke University, his M.A. at Kent State University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965.

Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? (1967); The Higher Circles (1970); The Powers That Be (1979); and Who Rules America Now? (1983).

More recently, he is the author of The Power Elite And The State: How Policy Is Made In America (1990), State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies On Policy Making in America (1996), Changing The Powers That Be: How The Left Can Stop Losing and Win (2003), and Who Rules America: Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance, 6th ed. (2009).

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