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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Elitism in a Democracy | |
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| The Inevitability of Elites | |
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| The Institutional Basis of Power | |
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| Power as Decision-Making: The Pluralist View | |
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| Identifying Positions of Power | |
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| Dimensions of America's Elite | |
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| Some Questions for Research | |
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| The Corporate Directors | |
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| The Concentration of Corporate Power | |
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| The Globalization of Economic Power | |
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| Institutionalizing the Global Economy | |
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| Who Controls Corporate America? | |
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| Inside the Boardrooms | |
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| The Managers: Climbing the Corporate Ladder | |
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| The Inheritors: Starting at the Top | |
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| The Ford Family | |
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| The Walton Family | |
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| Paychecks of the Corporate Chiefs | |
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| Corporate Counterrevolutions | |
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| Hostile Takeovers | |
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| The Limits of Corporate Power | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Money Elite | |
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| The Concentration of Financial Resources | |
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| The Banking Boardrooms | |
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| Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | |
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| The Wall Street Bailout | |
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| The Treasury's TARP | |
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| GM Bankruptcy | |
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| Fed Responses | |
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| The Economic Stimulus Package | |
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| Financial Regulation | |
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| The Federal Reserve Board | |
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| Controlling the Money Supply | |
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| Ben Bernanke: Managing the Nation's Money | |
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| The Securities and Exchange Commission | |
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| The Superrich | |
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| Changing Sources of Wealth | |
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| Warren Buffett: Radical Investor | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Media Moguls | |
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| Agenda Setting: Deciding What Wilt Be Decided | |
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| The Concentration of Media Power | |
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| Rupert Murdoch: Founder of FOX | |
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| Ted Turner: Maverick Media Mogul | |
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| Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.: The New York Times | |
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| The Graham Family: The Washington Post | |
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| Bad News and Good Profits | |
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| Liberal Bias in the News | |
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| Wolf Blitzer: TV Anchor | |
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| The Internet: Expanding Communication | |
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| Arianna Huffington: Internet Influence | |
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| Prime Time: Socializing the Masses | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Governing Circles | |
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| The Concentration of Governmental Power | |
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| The Politicians: Ambition and Office Seeking | |
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| Barack Obama: A Call for Change | |
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| Early Life | |
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| Education | |
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| Audacity of Hope | |
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| Early Political Career | |
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| Presidential Campaign | |
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| The Obama Reign | |
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| Campaigner-in-Chief | |
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| Policy Initiatives | |
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| The Individual Mandate | |
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| Failed Initiatives | |
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| Iraq, Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden | |
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| Reelection | |
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| Back to Work | |
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| Executive Decision-Makers: The Serious People | |
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| Executive Leadership Profile | |
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| Hillary Clinton: Leading the Way for Women | |
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| John Kerry: Wealth and Power | |
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| Valerie Jarrett: In the Innermost Circle | |
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| The Congressional Establishment | |
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| Paul Ryan: Young Gun in The House | |
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| John Boehner: Leading House Republicans | |
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| Nancy Pelosi: Leading House Democrats | |
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| The Judges | |
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| Clarence Thomas: Up from Pinpoint | |
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| Sonia Sotomayor: A Latina on the Court | |
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| The Military Establishment | |
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| Colin Powell: Soldier-Statesman | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Civic Establishment | |
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| Fat Cats: Financing Politics | |
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| The "Superlawyers" | |
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| Paul Clement: Arguing before the High Court | |
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| The "Fixers": Peddling Power for Prop | |
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| The Foundations | |
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| Bill Gates: Global Philanthropist | |
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| The Billion-Dollar Universities | |
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| The Cultural Institutions | |
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| Summary | |
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| How Institutional Elites Make Public Policy | |
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| Policy as Elite Preference | |
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| An Oligarchic Model of National Policy-Making | |
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| The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission | |
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| The Council on Foreign Relations | |
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| The Trilateral Commission | |
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| The Business Roundtable | |
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| The Brookings Institution | |
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| Competition among Elites | |
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| The American Enterprise Institute | |
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| The Heritage Foundation | |
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| The Center for American Progress | |
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| The Liberal Establishment | |
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| Establishment Challenges: The Wall Street Journal and FOX News | |
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| Dueling Foundations | |
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| George Soros: Funding the Far Left | |
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| The "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" | |
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| Scaife Family Foundations | |
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| Bradley Foundation | |
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| Koch Family Foundations | |
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| Adolph Coors Foundation | |
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| The "Proximate Policy-Makers" | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Structure of Institutional Power | |
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| Questions in Elite Research | |
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| Hierarchy or Polyarchy? | |
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| A Ruling Class or an Open Leadership System? | |
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| Convergence or Specialization at the Top? | |
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| "Interlockers" and "Specialists" | |
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| Elite Recruitment: Getting to the Top | |
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| The Education of Elites | |
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| Women at the Top | |
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| African Americans at the Top | |
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| Social Clubs | |
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| The Private Companies | |
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| Koch Industries | |
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| Bechtel Corporation | |
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| The Trump Organization | |
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| Class: A Touchy Subject | |
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| Summary | |
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| Institutional Elites in America | |
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| Defining Institutional Power | |
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| Hierarchy and Polyarchy among Institutional Elites | |
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| Summary of Findings | |
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| Concentration of Institutional Resources | |
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| The Size of the Nation's Elite | |
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| Interlocking versus Specialization | |
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| Inheritors versus Climbers | |
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| Separate Channels of Recruitment | |
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| Globalizing Institutional Power | |
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| Limits on Corporate Management | |
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| Prestigious University Affiliations | |
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| Cracks in the "Glass Ceiling" | |
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| African Americans in Elite Positions | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Media Concentration | |
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| Concentration of Individual Wealth | |
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| The Central Role of the Policy-Planning Groups | |
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| Competition among Elites | |
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| An Oligarchic Model of National Policy-Making | |
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| The Obama Effect | |
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| Power: Insider and Outsider Views | |
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| Who's Running America? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |