Sentence examples for pluralist group from inspiring English sources

From early in the twentieth century, a common view of collective action in pluralist group politics was that policy on any issue must be, roughly, a vector sum of the forces of all of the groups interested in the issue (Bentley 1908).

The women, activists with Women of the Wall, a feminist and pluralist religious group, were released without conditions; the police had requested that they be barred from attending their group's monthly prayer at the wall for the next three months.

The women, activists with Women of the Wall, a feminist and pluralist religious group, have been challenging the enforcement of strict Orthodox codes at the holy site.

They argue against the interest group pluralist theorists that the problem of participation occurs within interest groups more or less as much as among the citizenry at large.

One approach that is in part motivated by the problem of democratic citizenship but which attempts to preserve some elements of equality against the elitist criticism is the interest group pluralist account of politics.

The American political theorist Robert Dahl, who had long been a scholar of the topic, viewed democracy as the pluralist interplay of groups in what he called a "polyarchy".

But like every other special interest group in a pluralist society, Catholics will have to explain themselves clearly to others, and above all to speak with honesty and consistency.

The sum of all the group interests in a pluralist system, he argued, does not equal the general interest.

This is because it still functions within a pluralist political environment and only major groups are involved in this special relationship with government; all other groups and interests compete in the same way that they would in a pluralist system such as the United States.

Theories of interest group activity in non-pluralist regimes are less all-embracing because of the wide variety of such regimes.

Southeast Asia would be radically divided between a garrisoned Soviet-aligned, Marxist mini-empire and a grouping of pro-Western, pluralist societies.