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. Heargues that there is a dominant group, business. I agree that the pluralist ideology is wrong andthat business is very dominant in our political society.He continues by stating that there are two faces of the political privilege of business. Thefirst 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 systemby business to obtain political objectives, can be divided into three aspects, business predominancein lobbying policy makers, the role of business in financing elections, and messages favorable tobusiness 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 significance of representativenessof these groups and should instead see the extent to which these groups represent one societalinterest that of business. I agree that there are many interest groups but a majority of them are insome way lobbying for business. I also believe that the majority of the people know that this isgoing on and don’t like it and would like to see a change. Next Hudson discusses the businesses role in providing finding for elections. The businessthat contribute money can expect to be heard by the elected officials they have helped. He statesthat business dominates lobby groups as well as dominates the universe of campaigncontributions. I believe that this gives businesses a huge advantage and also I believe that this isthe major reason business predominates over politics in our society. And the more closely youlook at this issue the more clea...
