Descriptive and prescriptive theory of power in modern societies.
Either: since people gain their identity from the groups of which they are members, political power should wherever possible be distributed to functional groups; or: in modern democracies, bargaining between groups contributes as much to policy as does formal democracy.
Also see: impacted pluralism
Source:
David Miller et al., eds, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Oxford, 1987)
Politics and law
- Pluralism (political philosophy), the acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems
- Pluralism (political theory), belief that there should be diverse and competing centres of power in society
- Legal pluralism, the existence of differing legal systems in a population or area
- Pluralist democracy, a political system with more than one center of power
Philosophy
- Pluralism (philosophy), a doctrine according to which many basic substances make up reality
- Pluralist school, a Greek school of pre-Socratic philosophers
- Epistemological pluralism or methodological pluralism, the view that some phenomena require multiple methods to account for their nature
- Value pluralism, the idea that several values may be equally correct and yet in conflict with each other
Religion
- Religious pluralism, the acceptance of all religious paths as equally valid, promoting coexistence
- Holding multiple ecclesiastical offices; see “Pluralism” at Benefice#Pluralism
- Pluralism Project, a Harvard-affiliated project on religious diversity in the United States
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