{{Short description|Democracy with more than one system of power}} {{Democracy sidebar}} In the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970–1979), a '''pluralist democracy''' is described as a political system where there is more than one center of power.<ref>{{cite web|title=Theory of Pluralistic Democracy|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Pluralistic+Democracy,+Theory+of|work=TheFreeDictionary|publisher=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia|access-date=4 June 2012|location=3rd Edition|year=1970–1979}}</ref>
Modern democracies are by definition pluralist as they allow freedom of association; however, pluralism may exist without democracy.<ref>The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science by F Bealey, 1999</ref>
In a pluralist democracy, individuals achieve positions of formal political authority by forming successful electoral coalitions.
Such coalitions are formed through a process of bargaining among political leaders and subleaders of the various organizations within the community. It is necessary to form electoral coalitions; this gives the organizational leaders the ability to present demands and articulate the viewpoints of their membership.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/43891966 |title= Hamed Kazemzadeh: Democratic platform in Social Pluralism |journal= Internal Journal of ACPCS |issue=10 |date= January 2020 |last1= Kazemzadeh |first1= Hamed }}</ref> Hamed Kazemzadeh, a pluralist from Canada, believes that pluralist democracy means a multitude of groups, not the people as a whole, can govern, direct, and manage societies as an ethic of respect for diversity.
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==External links== *[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/446749?uid=3739136&uid=2&uid=4&sid=47699064503777 "The Political Theory of Pluralist Democracy"], article by Claude J. Burtenshaw (''The Western Political Quarterly'', Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1968), pp. 577–587, University of Utah) *[https://kazemzadeh.ca/ "Pluralist Democracy"], The Portfolio of Hamed Kazemzadeh Perso-Canadian Orientalist and Pluralist. *[https://www.eurozine.com/a-pluralist-democracy/ "A Pluralist Democracy"], by Göran Rosenberg (''Eurozine'', 27 November 2001) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223194324/http://library.thinkquest.org/26466/pluralist_model.html "Pluralist Model"], by ThinkQuest Team 26466: Eric Barr, Taylor Rankin, and John Baird (A More Perfect Union project)
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