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Compare and contrast Pluralist and Ruling Elite accounts of political power.
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Compare and contrast Pluralist and Ruling Elite accounts of political power. Pluralist political power is a theory which states that political power in a state is dispersed among the people and works for all the people. It can be described as an "Open Political System". Elitist theorists however, put forward the Ruling Elite Theory. This is that the ruling elite are a minority which rules over the majority in the interest of the minority and that the minority is not concerned with or accountable to the minority. To compare these two contrasting theories on political power, will show many points where the two accounts clash, showing how they cannot both be the correct account for political power, although I will not be able to say which it is that is correct for political power today. Both theories state that there are a number of requirements for them. In pluralism, these requirements are what...
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