Pluralism

The western political pluralism is a school of thought that has attracted massive amount in the recent past. This mind boggling school of thought dissects and critiques the conglomeration of power in a central place.  During the early decades of the 19^th century, pluralism offered sound critiques relating to the sovereignty of states. Pluralism advocated for decentralization of governments, here it sought to have the society govern itself and run associations in an independent manner (Axford, 2002). According to the theory of pluralism, government blue print otherwise known as framework is a custodian of not only decision making but also the politics. However, it asserts that quite a number of non-governmental bodies inject their resources into the system to make their influence felt (Sorenson, 2004).Often, the principle question of pluralism that most scholars are keen to answer is how the distribution of power together with influence is done in the political process. This is relatively because different groups of persons with diverse interests are out to maximize them. In this system, conflicts are ever present as competing interests are continually in power brokerage.  Despite not being inequality proof, governments tend to evenly distribute resources among its populace. Any slight change of the aforementioned is often slow and gradual as different groups have diverse interests and often have powers to gag or frustrate legislations that are not in their favor.

            According to Leftwich (2004), pluralists assert that power can never be measured by the pyhsical state of persons as power often flows from different sources. Rather, individuals accrue their power from the amount of resources under their control. Resources are very integral to power as they are able to influence or else force persons to act in a manner that the owner of the assets wants them to act. Finally, the pluralistic theory observes that it is never easy to categorise or else make assumptions about power in any community. Therefore it is evident that it not  a question of who runs the community but which group does.