Corporate political activity is both a long-standing preoccupation and an area of innovation
for sociologists. We examine the limitations of investigating business unity without focusing …

The 2010 US Supreme Court Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 130 US 876
(2010) case concerned the plans of a nonprofit organization to distribute a film about …

This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?,
on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent …

The public believes that politicians in the US favor special interests over their constituents
and that our political institutions have become corrupt—and they are right. A growing body of …

ABSTRACT In 1978, Ermann and Lundman put forth the most sophisticated organizational
deviance framework to date. They conceptualized organizational deviance as actions by an …

This chapter presents a substantive account of the author's writing and updating of Who
Rules America? over the past five decades. It is the story of an ongoing eclectic search for …

Using power structure research, this paper explores one of the barriers to climate legislation
in the US—interest group politics. Specifically, it analyzes how different groups leverage …

To better understand the way in which local and national forces operate to influence the
design of subnational regulatory systems, this paper analyzes the development of alcohol …

Historical, political, and sociological explorations of the regulation of alcohol in America
have overwhelmingly focused on the experience of prohibition. The questions of how and …