Richard L. Zweigenhaft

The articles in this section were written by Richard L. Zweigenhaft of Guilford College, a long-time collaborator and co-author of G. William Domhoff on research about diversity in the Power Elite.

Diversity in the Corporate Community

• The Unexpected and Dramatic Increase in Diversity on Top-50 Corporate Boards (2024)
• Diversity Update: Fortune 500 CEOs from 2000 to 2020 (2021)
• The Rise and Fall of Diversity at the Top (2016)
• Diversity Among CEOs and Corporate Directors (2013)

Diversity in Government

• Diversity in Presidential Cabinets, from FDR to Trump to Biden (2021)
• The Election of 2018: Diversity in the 116th Congress (2018)
• Who Represents America: Diversity in Congress, 1972-2016 (2018)

Elite Education

• Perpetuating the Horatio Alger Myth: Fortune 500 CEOs, Elite Education, and the Corporate Media (2023)
• The Role of Elite Education for White Men, White Women, and People of Color in the U.S. Corporate Elite (2015)

Miscellaneous

• Who's Jewish These Days? The Meaning of the Surprising False Positives of George Santos and Anna Paulina Luna for Research-Oriented Social Scientists (2023)
• Maximizing Corporate Profits or Doing the Right Thing? White Male Fortune 500 CEOs, New CEOs, and the Ukraine Morality Test (2022)

See also: Diversity in the Power Elite: Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises, a 2018 book co-authored by Zweigenhaft & Domhoff.