The Privileged Position of Business

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The Privileged Position of Business

Hudson first states what he believes to be the central assumption of the Pluralist

description of American politics that there is no one dominant group in American Society. He

argues that there is a dominant group, business. I agree that the pluralist ideology is wrong and

that business is very dominant in our political society.

He continues by stating that there are two faces of the political privilege of business. The

first involves business actively manipulating the political system to obtain their political objectives.

Hudson starts by stating that the first aspect, that of the active manipulating of the political system

by business to obtain political objectives, can be divided into three aspects, business predominance

in lobbying policy makers, the role of business in financing elections, and messages favorable to

business in the media, schools, and universities.

I will first discuss his views on the predominance of business in lobbying policy makers.

He argues that the pluralist theory is wrong in determining the signifi...

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