After completing Chapter 14, you should be able to:
- Compare and contrast the elitist and the pluralist views of the power structure in the U.S.
- Discuss criticisms of both the elitist and pluralist views.
- Identify the structural barriers to democracy that exist is U.S. society.
- Discuss and critique the works of Mills, Domhoff, and Parenti.
- Discuss the consequences of concentrated power in the U.S. society.
- Discuss the problems with trickle down solutions.
- Discuss how Supreme Court rulings have helped African Americans achieve racial equality.
- Compare and contrast the assumptions of the order and conflict models about politics and political power.
