The pluralist model is rooted in a functionalist perspective which assumes that the government serves important functions no other institution can fulfill. Although acknowledge that the government serves a number of important purposes in society, they assert that government exists for the benefit of wealthy or politically powerful elites who use the government to impose their will on the masses.

Conflict theorist          

Explanation:

The pluralist model is rooted in a functionalist perspective which assumes that the government serves important functions no other institution can fulfill. Although conflict theorist acknowledge that the government serves a number of important purposes in society, they assert that government exists for the benefit of wealthy or politically powerful elites who use the government to impose their will on the masses.  

While the pluralist model asserts that power is dispersed among groups; the insider groups and the outsider groups and that government serve important functions, Carl Marx in his conflict theory asserts that society is controlled by those with wealth and power and they hold on to it by suppressing the poor and powerless and they control the government who makes policies to their favor.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.