Pluralistic thesis

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The pluralistic thesis is a democratic theory of the participation of elitist associations in political power .

It was set up by Harold Laski and Robert Alan Dahl as a counter-model to neocorporatism . According to the thesis, political power is the result of a relatively egalitarian competition between a large number of interest groups , pressure and veto groups (English for ' veto groups').

For Germany, the statement is the assumption that the earlier opinion- noble - upper middle class upper class with the end of dictatorship NS has gone down, this place but was partially taken over by business elites. In the post-war period there was also a lack of cultural homogeneity among the ruling classes and (to this day) there was no common education in privileged schools. School education, for example, has a major impact on elite education in the USA and France .

According to Laski and Dahl, the elite today is largely formed through exclusive social infrastructure or ideology (clubs such as Rotarians , business associations , religious communities ).

See also: pluralism .