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The Anatomy of American Governance.
Sheldon Wolin's ( see link below ) overarching thesis is that America's national political order has evolved into what he calls an inverted totalitarianism. Unlike the top-down dictatorships of a Stalin or a Hitler, America's form of "totalism" is rooted in an interdependent "copartnership" of corporation and state that, like any individual corporation, is hierarchically structured and headed by a strong executive (the President). Both the corporate and state components of this amalgamated enterprise are managed by policy-makers and administrators who, in many cases, are the product of privileged backgrounds, a system of elite university training, and professional connections that Wolin describes as "self-validating" and "self-perpetuating."
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thank you for the excellent suggestions to change title of this diary
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