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Compare and Contrast Pluralist and Marxist Accounts of Power in the UK and US. Pluralism and Marxism both offer comprehensive theories about the location of power within the modern state. Both theories to some extent were based on Western governments; with Marxism being developed partly through Engels' experiences in Manchester in the mid nineteenth century and Pluralism being developed through the studies in America in the mid twentieth century; but they both offer radically different ideas about who holds power in the UK and the US. We should, however, be wary about using terms such as 'pluralism' and 'Marxism' without acknowledging that many different variations of the theories exist, and that they have both developed over time. It must be seen, therefore that my analysis of the accounts of power in either system can hardly be holistic. One of the basic premises of pluralism is that the more power is...

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