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According to Wikipedia, George William "Bill" Domhoff is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and research professor of psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a founding faculty member of UCSC's Cowell College. He is best known as the author of several best-selling sociology books, including Who Rules America? and its seven subsequent editions .

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Who Rules America? (2021) (804)
Finding Meaning in Dreams: A Quantitative Approach (1996) (322)
The scientific study of dreams : neural networks, cognitive development, and content analysis (2003) (321)
The American Corporate Network 1904-1974 (1982) (258)
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America. (1990) (232)
Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports (2013) (209)
The higher circles : the governing class in America (1972) (201)
Who rules America? : power and politics, and social change (2006) (163)
The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America (1978) (145)
The Power Elite And The State (1990) (119)
The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy: The Ideology of Philanthropy (1983) (112)
Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? (1998) (107)
Who Really Rules?: New Haven and Community Power Reexamined. (1978) (99)
Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich (2013) (95)
The neural substrate for dreaming: Is it a subsystem of the default network? (2011) (91)
A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams (2001) (90)
Dreaming and the default network: A review, synthesis, and counterintuitive research proposal (2015) (88)
Diversity in the Power Elite: How it Happened, Why it Matters (2006) (84)
Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America (1991) (84)
Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital (2005) (80)
Who rules America now? : a view for the '80s (1984) (74)
Wealth, Income, and Power (2011) (74)
The Bohemian Grove and other retreats;: A study in ruling-class cohesiveness, (1974) (73)
State Autonomy or Class Dominance?: Case Studies on Policy Making in America (1996) (72)
The Dreams of Blind Men and Women: A Replication and Extension of Previous Findings (1999) (62)
The Scientific Study of Dreams (2002) (58)
New Directions in the Study of Dream Content Using the Hall and Van de Castle Coding System (1999) (58)
Studying dream content using the archive and search engine on DreamBank.net (2008) (56)
Who Rules America Now (1983) (55)
The repetition of dreams and dream elements: A possible clue to a function of dreams. (1993) (54)
Similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels (2008) (52)
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations (1975) (52)
The Invasion of the Concept Snatchers: The Origins, Distortions, and Future of the Continuity Hypothesis (2017) (51)
Power elites and organizations (1987) (48)
Power Structure Research (1980) (47)
Refocusing the Neurocognitive Approach to Dreams: A Critique of the Hobson Versus Solms Debate. (2005) (41)
Much Ado About Very Little: The Small Effect Sizes When Home and Laboratory Collected Dreams Are Compared (1999) (41)
The Most Recent Dreams of 12–13 Year-Old Boys and Girls: A Methodological Contribution to the Study of Dream Content in Teenagers (1999) (40)
The Power Elite and Their Challengers (2009) (40)
Dreams as the Expression of Conceptions and Concerns: A Comparison of German and American College Students (2006) (38)
New rationales and methods for quantitative dream research outside the laboratory. (1998) (35)
Blacks in the White Elite: Will the Progress Continue? (2003) (33)
The Limitations of Regime Theory (2006) (33)
The dreams of college men and women in 1950 and 1980: a comparison of dream contents and sex differences. (1982) (32)
Do the Blind Literally "See" in Their Dreams? A Critique of a Recent Claim That They Do. (2004) (31)
Latent classes and group membership (1981) (30)
Drawing Theoretical Implications from Descriptive Empirical Findings on Dream Content (1999) (29)
Chapter 42 – The Content of Dreams: Methodologic and Theoretical Implications (2005) (29)
C. Wright Mills and The power elite (1968) (29)
The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz (2008) (28)
Corporate-Liberal Theory and the Social Security Act: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge (1987) (28)
Detecting meaning in dream reports: An extension of a word search approach. (2010) (28)
Nonprofit Organizations and the Corporate Community (1983) (27)
The mystique of dreams: A search for utopia through Senoi dream theory (1985) (27)
Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition (2011) (24)
Jews in the Protestant establishment (1982) (23)
Fat Cats And Democrats (1972) (19)
Dream Content is Continuous with Waking Thought, Based on Preoccupations, Concerns, and Interests (2010) (16)
Is the Corporate Elite Fractured, or is there Continuing Corporate Dominance? Two Contrasting Views (2015) (16)
Bottom-up or top-down in dream neuroscience? A top-down critique of two bottom-up studies (2014) (15)
Dreaming as embodied simulation: A widower’s dreams of his deceased wife. (2015) (15)
C. Wright Mills, Power Structure Research, and the Failures of Mainstream Political Science (2007) (14)
Are Dreams Social Simulations? Or Are They Enactments of Conceptions and Personal Concerns? An Empirical and Theoretical Comparison of Two Dream Theories (2018) (14)
State and Ruling Class in Corporate America (1999) (13)
Needed: A new theory (2000) (12)
Why Did Empirical Dream Researchers Reject Freud? A Critique of Historical Claims by Mark Solms. (2004) (12)
Mills's The Power Elite 50 Years Later (2006) (12)
Using Content Analysis to Study Dreams (2001) (12)
Studying the Power Elite: Fifty Years of Who Rules America? (2017) (11)
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Grand Area: Case Studies on the Origins of the IMF and the Vietnam War (2014) (10)
Chapter 50 – Dream Content: Quantitative Findings (2011) (10)
Correcting for Multiple Comparisons in Studies of Dream Content: A Statistical Addition to the Hall/Van de Castle Coding System (2015) (10)
Corporations, the Civic Sector, and Government: Do They Interlock? (1980) (9)
Assessing autocorrelation in studies using the Hall and Van de Castle coding system to study individual dream series. (2015) (9)
Fat cats and Democrats;: The role of the big rich in the party of the common man (1972) (9)
Changing the Powers that Be: How the Left Can Stop Losing and Win , by G. William Domhoff (2003) (9)
The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies (2011) (9)
Content Analysis of Iranian College Students' Dreams: Comparison With American Data (2013) (7)
American State Autonomy via the Military? Another Counterattack on a Theoretical Delusion (1991) (7)
A Research Note on the Male/Female Percentage in the Dreams of Japanese Women; A Failed Attempt at Replication. (2004) (7)
The neurocognitive theory of dreams at age 20: An assessment and a comparison with four other theories of dreaming. (2019) (6)
The presentation of dreaming and dreams in introductory psychology textbooks: A critical examination with suggestions for textbook authors and course instructors. (1998) (6)
Analyzing Power Structures (1975) (6)
Toward a neurocognitive model of dreams. (2003) (5)
The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century (2019) (5)
The Continuity between Dreams and Waking Life in Individuals and Groups (1996) (4)
Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal (2020) (4)
Reply to Mageo (2019): Four assertions I did not make about dreams. (2020) (3)
A New Beginning for Empirical Dream Research (2006) (3)
The Death of State Autonomy Theory: A Review of Skocpol's Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (1992) (3)
On "Welfare Capitalism and the Social Security Act of 1935" (1986) (3)
A reply to Hobson (2005). (2005) (2)
Big money in American politics (1988) (2)
Class and Power in the New Deal (2020) (2)
Dreaming Is an Intensified Form of Mind-Wandering, Based in an Augmented Portion of the Default Network (2018) (2)
Watergate: Conflict and antagonisms within the power elite (1974) (2)
Class, Power, and Parties in the New Deal:: A Critique of Skocpol's State Autonomy Theory (1991) (2)
State and Ruling Class in Corporate America (1974): Reflections, Corrections, and New Directions (1999) (2)
State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy making in America@@@From the Outside In: World War II and the American State (1997) (2)
Historical materialism, cultural determinism, and the origin of the ruling classes. (1969) (2)
The Quality of the Data (1996) (2)
The Hall/Van de Castle System of Content Analysis (1996) (2)
Can Stimulus-Incorporation and Emotion-Assimilation Theorists Revive the Continuity Hypothesis They Deprived of Cognitive Meaning? A Reply to Jenkins (2018) (2)
A new resource for content analysis. (2003) (2)
Social Clubs, Policy-Planning Groups, and Corporations (1984) (2)
Iranians’ Beliefs About Dreams: Developing and Validating the My Beliefs About Dreams Questionnaire (2018) (2)
Age Differences in Dream Reports (1996) (1)
Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn, edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. Pp. 246. (2007) (1)
Thing and No-Thing. (1968) (1)
From adolescence to young adulthood in two dream series: The consistency and continuity of characters and major personal interests. (2020) (1)
Two Luthers: the traditional and the heretical in Freudian psychology. (1970) (1)
New Life for a Tired Area: Another Look at Community Power@@@Who Really Rules?: New Haven and Community Power Reexamined. (1979) (1)
Chapter 49 – Dream Content: Quantitative Findings (2017) (1)
Political Elites Reconsidered: Process, Consequences, and Values@@@The Higher Circles@@@Political Elites@@@The Recruitment of Political Leaders: A Study of Citizen-Politicians@@@The Democratic Citizen (1974) (1)
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network (2022) (1)
Contingency analysis and dream content: The night metaphors of a pre-Freudian anal character. (1991) (1)
Why Can’t US Business Elites be Moderate Keynesians? The Issue is Power, not Economics (2014) (1)
The Corporate Community and the Upper Class (2021) (1)
Now an Invasion by a Freudian Concept-Snatcher: Reply to Erdelyi (2017) (1)
Power structure research in America and the promise of democracy (1984) (1)
Who Rules Sociology Now?@@@The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America. (1991) (1)
Dreaming is Imagination Roaming Freely, Based On Embodied Simulation, and Subserved by an Unconstrained Default Network (2020) (1)
G. William Domhoff: The Adventures and Regrets of a Professor of Dreams and Power (2014) (0)
Senoi, Kilton Stewart and The Mystique of Dreams: Further Thoughts on an Allegory About an Allegory (1991) (0)
Race, Class, and the Power Elite@@@Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America. (1991) (0)
The Rise and Decline of the Santa Cruz Growth Coalition (2018) (0)
15. Latinos in the Power Elite (2019) (0)
Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research. By Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. x+338. $67.50 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). (2012) (0)
Creating a Liberal-Left Alliance for Social Change (2009) (0)
The Repetition Dimension in Dreams and Waking Cognition (1996) (0)
The Progressive Coalition in Power: 1981–1989 (2018) (0)
The Problems with Activation-Synthesis Theory (2013) (0)
Making Sense of Dreaming (2003) (0)
The American Power Structure (2019) (0)
Parties and Elections (2021) (0)
The Corporate Community (2021) (0)
The Circuitous Path to the Affordable Care Act, 1974–2010 (2019) (0)
From Turmoil to the World Trade Organization, 1968–2000 (2019) (0)
Review Symposium I: Can't We Try Something Different For A Change? A Reply To Dan Clawson, Bob Newby, and Bob Ross (2004) (0)
Domhoff's Contribution@@@Who Rules America Now? A View for the Eighties. (1985) (0)
What I learned from interacting with and reading Chip Berlet (2021) (0)
A Guerrilla Evaluation of a Success Story@@@Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America (1992) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
The Origins of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (2019) (0)
The emergence of ego psychology: a symposium. But why did they sit on the king's right in the first place? (1969) (0)
The Grand Area and the Origins of the International Monetary Fund (2019) (0)
An introduction to "The two provinces of dreams": Commentary on Hall's paper. (1991) (0)
Consistency and Change in Long Dream Series (1996) (0)
The Shortcomings of Alternative Theories (2019) (0)
The Role of Public Opinion (2021) (0)
Book Review:Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's Battle of the Potomac. Gregory Hooks (1992) (0)
The Leftmost City in America (2018) (0)
Cross-Cultural Studies of Dream Content (1996) (0)
The Grand Area Strategy and the Vietnam War (2019) (0)
The Corporate Moderates Reorganize to Defeat Unions, 1969–1985 (2019) (0)
Normative Findings on American College Students (1996) (0)
Union Victories, Corporate Pushback in the 1960s (2019) (0)
The Corporate Rich, The Policy-Planning Network, and the Power Elite (2021) (0)
How the Power Elite Dominate Government (2021) (0)
Content analysis does not belong in any theoretical category: A comment on Hartmann's "meteorite–gemstone" continuum. (2011) (0)
The Uphill Battle for Unionism from the 1820s to 1932 (2019) (0)
The Wagner Act and Class Conflict, 1897-1948 (2017) (0)
Concepts, Definitions, and Power Indicators (2021) (0)
Methodological issues in the study of dream content. (2003) (0)
Defining the Class Dominance View (2021) (0)
Social Disruption, New Social Benefits, and then Cutbacks, 1967–1999 (2019) (0)
State Autonomy And The Employment Act of 1946 : An Empirical Attack on a Theoretical Fantasy (2017) (0)
New ways to study meaning in dreams. (2003) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Introduction: Situating Who Rules America? Within Debates on Power (2017) (0)
Excerpts from Diversity in the Power Elite (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
The Origins of the Social Security Act (2019) (0)
Report on the Second Annual West Coast Socialist Sociology Conference (1974) (0)
Examining the American Power Structure in a Wider Perspective (2021) (0)
A critique of traditional dream theories. (2003) (0)
Progressives Versus Progressives Over Growth and Neighborhoods (2018) (0)
The Scientific Study of Dream Content (1996) (0)
The Council on Foreign Relations and World Trade (2019) (0)
Revising and Augmenting Social Security, 1937–1973 (2019) (0)
Is "Scientism" the "Authentic Science" After All? (2004) (0)
Introduction (1980) (0)
Rejoinder to Hooks' Reply (1991) (0)
A Paper-and-Pencil Study of Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis (1964) (0)
Stronger Unions, a Weaker National Labor Relations Act, 1936–1960 (2019) (0)
Reviews -- Blacks in the White Establishment?: A Study of Race and Class in America by Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff (1994) (0)
The Hall-Van de Castle system. (2003) (0)
The Rebirth and Defeat of the Santa Cruz Growth Coalition (2018) (0)
The Ruling Class and the Women's Page (1977) (0)
Fault Lines of Power : Assessing Theories of Urban Power (2018) (0)
Social Networks, Power, and the State (2017) (0)
Who Rules America? Through Seven Editions and Fifty Years: Still More Accurate Than Alternative Power Theories (2017) (0)
Book reviews (1985) (0)
Shaking up the Power Structure (2018) (0)
Rebuilding Europe in the Face of Ultraconservative Resistance, 1945–1967 (2019) (0)
The Class-Dominance Theory of Power in the United States (2017) (0)

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