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How valid is the pluralist analysis in modern day liberal democracies?
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HOW VALID IS THE PLURALIST ANALYSIS IN MODERN DAY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES? Liberal democracies are countries governed by the people or their elected representatives. They are regular elections and referendums with a wide variety of pressure groups taking freedom of speech to the limit. Therefore in theory liberal democracies should represent the true pluralist model. Pluralism is based on democracy and Roseau's general will theory. This theory has the government representing the general will of the people and as long as this is so the government will remain the true representative of the people. When this theory is breached, such as recently in Britain over the war on Iraq, legitimacy is broken and elitism is apparent. This is so as the elites are making decisions on behalf of the country with which its inhabitants don't cohere. This shows that Marx's predictions were right and elites would always dominate society. True pluralism should...
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