... pluralist view of democracy derives from a classic liberal way of thinking and is often called liberal democracy. Pluralism is the belief 'in diversity or choice, or the theory that political power should be widely and evenly dispersed.'(Heywood,1998) The pluralist model power is truly ' by the people for the people' as power is exercised through the mass population rather than a small elite. The ideals of a pluralist democracy include the ideas that the electorate is accountable to the elector, governmental institutions are accessible to groups and 'there is a wide dispersal of power among competing groups'. (Heywood, 2002). Therefore if electorates as a majority do not like what their representatives are doing they can vote against them, meaning that a representative's actions has to benefit the majority of the electorate. However critics of pluralist democracy argue that although a representative should act on behalf of his representatives however a ...

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