Views on Representative Democracy
The first three theories of political elitism – developed, respectively, by Marx, Mills, and Weber – most likely cannot coexist with a representative democracy, simply because they allow the people little to no involvement in the nation’s political process. Pluralism, however, is the situation most likely to hold true in the United States, for it entails the existence of numerous elites, each of which is responsive to its follower’s interests.If Karl Marx’s theory of political elites held true in the United States, for instance, there would be little opportunity for the “power of the people” to take root and flourish. Marxists believe that the government itself holds little significance or power, because it is simply controlled by the dominant economic class. Political decisions are made by whichever class holds power at a certain point in time: the capitalists or the workers. The members of the dominant
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