What theory takes the view that, in a free society, public policy should be made by a multitude of competing interest groups, ensuring that policies will not benefit a single elite at the expense of the many?

Pluralist theory

Explanation:

Pluralism/pluralist theory is the view that politics and decision making lies mostly in the framework of government, but that many non-governmental/interest groups have power and exert influence with their resources. In other words that saying that groups govern the state and not the people as a whole, groups such as trade unions, business and financial lobbies, coalitions of like minded people etc.

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