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Franz Leopold Neumann's book Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, a study of how Nazism came into power in a democracy like Germany, had major impact on sociologist C. Wright Mills, specifically manifest in his seminal 1956 text, The Power Elite. He once claimed that Behemoth had given him the "tools to grasp and analyze the entire total structure and as a warning of what could happen in a modern capitalist democracy." According to Mills, members of the "power elite" are those who occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country. Their decisions (or lack of decisions) have enormous consequences, not only for the U.S., but also for "the underlying populations of the world." Three major groups lead those institutions: (1)Corporations--two or three hundred giant corporations, which have replaced the traditional agrarian and craft economy. (2) Strong Federal Political Order that has inherited power from "decentralized set o