In this text the notion of democracy (demos + kratos) and pluralist society (plus) and their basic characteristics have first been logically and historically defined. Based on that definition their relation and connection have been deduced. Then its functioning in some West-European societies has been analyzed on the model of form of democracy - consociacional democracy. The mentioned notions are put in a wider categorial and real frame, where they happen (or not). That wider context is politics (ta politiká) by which a human activity in a public sphere, whose aim should be the general good, is ment (and not only authority and ruling people as instruments by means of force and ideology).
