Elite vs. Pluralist Theory | Power and Politics in US Government 2 of 30 | Study Hall

This episode dives into some of the theories about political influence throughout US history, with a special focus on Elite and Pluralist Theory. By understanding how these competing ideas interact with each other, we’ll dig into what representation looks like within a representative democracy, and how that impacts our overall understanding of the US political process.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:11 - Representative democracy in the US
2:25 - Elite Theory
5:53 - Pluralist Theory
7:38 - Trade-offs
9:24 - Conclusion
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[lochness]

I've been loving this series. As a student currently taking an American government class, it could not come at a better time.

[amellirizarry]

Dude it's almost as if it were a, How they call it?🤔 a Class Struggle?

[CClark-cnmh]

This is a great educational video... Thank you. 😊

[pdnapora]

Rockefeller nor Bill Gates have degrees, so if superior education is a criteria of being an elite, they should not be grouped in. Conservatives have labeled Angelina Jolie an elite. She studied drama in New York. I'd hardly call a drama student an elite.

[philosophy-of-science-and-law]

Reality (everything that physically exists) leans realist (expressing things as meaningfully physically extant) is certainly tautologous. That's a very old complaint about reasoning that seems circular (in logic), or redundant (in expression) but is in fact correct. Why "the left" leans realist ('leaning' being used as an idiom, but in fact the left - liberal - side of the Nolan Chart for libertarianism), I suppose because liberals do not reject government as a reality.

[joshuaa.kennedy]

I can tell he is anti gun and second amendment rights.

[realRatRat]

why is it bad that felons can’t vote? i’ve never understood that. i can see arguments for illegal immigrants voting even though i wouldn’t agree, but people who clearly had no regard for our laws..?

[chancemackey]

Is this how all college students think now? This is some woke motivated education.

[dnomyar]

This is good, but note how they highlight things from a left-leaning point of view