List the three areas of agreement that Dye, Domhoff, and Lerner and colleagues have in common with Mills?

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Although they define the structure of power differently, Dye, Domhoff, and the authors of American Elites all accept Mills’s premise that power in this country is concentrated in the elites at the head of large organizations in critical sectors of American society. All find that the members of their elites are from relatively privileged backgrounds, though they differ on the details. All deal, in one way or another, with the problem of elite cohesion. Dye finds a more or less unified elite of 4,000 leaders (a remarkably small number) of the dominant organizations in 12 key sectors. The authors of The American Elites describe multiple elites whose power is limited to their own sectors and whose divergent views limit collaboration. Domhoff finds one dominant elite, the leaders of an interconnected corporate community, linked to a social upper class and the network of policy organizations. Dye, less explicitly, reaches a similar conclusion.