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Interlocks and Interactions Among the Power Elite

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This document presents new findings about the American power structure based on the connections among 2,563 corporations, 6 business leadership and policy-discussion groups, 33 prominent think tanks, 82 major foundations, 47 private universities with large endowments, and 19 White House advisory committees for the years 2011-2012. In all, the database used for our study contains 2,750 separate organizations and 9,121 individuals. It is one of the largest and most extensive data set ever assembled for the United States that includes for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations. 35.2% of the individuals in our database have connections to at least two of the organizations in the database. (See Table 1 for details, and this document about data sources for details on how the information for the database was collected.) Along with the several new findings provided in this document, we've also made available an online portal for doing your own searches, starting with either individu

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