The pluralist approach to the study of power, states that nothing categorical about power can be assumed in any community.

Even on what became its own home ground, however, the pluralist approach was not unchallenged, nor of course was it the first chronologically.

These features of pluralist approaches are explored in turn.

Finally, the chapter points to some of the weaknesses of pluralist approaches to understanding the distribution of political power.

Rather, pluralist approaches stress the need to establish that a group or individual consciously wanted a particular policy outcome and took successful measures to secure it.

The main attraction of pluralist approaches to the study of political phenomena lies in their catholicism.

Clearly the difference for contemporary Japan in the pluralist approach, lies in the framework of a representative democracy with intense interest group activity.

The other, the pluralist approach, seeks to account evenhandedly for the contributions of various racial and ethnic groups within the existing academic framework.

The pluralist approach suggests that the modern democratic state's actions are the result of pressures applied by a variety of organized interests.

What content can define a work, if it is not content founded on a pluralist approach to production?