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Write approximately 150 words on Pluralist theory of State.

  • UPSC 2024, 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Theories of the State

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Every state claims supreme jurisdiction over a territory and works through an apparatus of offices, courts and forces. Where that supremacy actually resides is the disputed point. Pluralism answers that authority and power are spread across many groups, so the state is one centre among several, not the master of society.

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  • The English Pluralists: Against Monism
  • The American Pluralists: Power Dispersed
  • Neo-pluralism and Critique
  • Indian Illustration
  • Conclusion
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