A pluralist government

There are 3 types of democracy that the United States can be represented by. Those 3 types are participatory, pluralist, and elite. These 3 are all different in a few ways. Participatory means that the people have complete control and have direct voting rights. Pluralist means that there are groups of people agreeing and disagreeing with other groups to get what the want (factions). And Elite, which is where the country is divided into social classes and the more wealthier people run the country. Personally, I think the U.S. government is most like a pluralist democracy.

I think this because there are groups of people with similar opinions all over trying to push for what they want to happen in the government. For example some of the biggest groups are republicans and democrats. These groups are made up of people who have similar political opinions. These two groups go against each other to fight for what they want to happen. By doing this arguing, it will likely end in a compromise taking opinions from both groups and mashing them together so everyone gets a little bit of what they want. "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"-Federalist #10. This document says that factions are groups of people with similar interests and opinions. It also says that these factions are the ones basically who make the decisions. They compete and bargain with each other and then later usually will have a compromise which benefits both or all sides. This arguing of large groups of people is how the country runs because we don't just listen to what one person says we usually do things by majority rules and listen to what large groups want. Another example is when women couldn't vote, there were different groups of people that either were fighting for women to be able to vote or other groups that were saying that they shouldn't be allowed to. This ended in more of a one sided compromise mostly benefiting women because women were then allowed to vote after all the fighting about it.

This supports my claim that the U.S. is a pluralist government because the two examples show how there are different groups/factions in the United States with similar opinions that will fight for what they want to see happen to the government. This is our government because big groups of people with the same interests are very powerful if they come about it correctly. They will fight with others, try to persuade, and even try to compromise the get what they want. Because we are supposed to be a democracy, the government "listens to the people". In a democracy people are supposed to have complete control but that's not exactly the case for the U.S. Its more the big groups that the government points out to listen to what they have to say and take that into account for our country. This is why the United States is a pluralist democracy.