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UK Politics And Core Political Ideas
UK Politics and Core Political Ideas
What is a Representative Democracy? - Answer-A government in which citizens elect others to represent, and make decisions for, them.
What is a Direct Democracy? - Answer-A government in which people vote to make their own rules and laws.
What is Legitma...
UK Politics and Core Political Ideas
What is a Representative Democracy? - Answer-A government in which citizens
elect others to represent, and make decisions for, them.
What is a Direct Democracy? - Answer-A government in which people vote to make
their own rules and laws.
What is Legitmacy? - Answer-How much a person or group is respected to make
correct choices.
What is a Pluralist Democracy - Answer-A form of government that has the majority
of power with the parliament but also has influential, non-governmental groups that
helps to make or hinder decisions.
What is a Democratic Deficit? - Answer-An expression used to describe the failures
of a government: a lack of transparency, accountability, technocratic decision
making.
What is a Participation Crisis? - Answer-When a large number voters don't believe
that they have the ability to influence decisions and cease to vote in elections or
referendums.
What is Suffrage/Franchise? - Answer-The right to vote in all elections.
What is a Think Tank? - Answer-A group of experts who inform and advise decision
makers on policies.
What is a lobbyist? - Answer-A person or group who attempts to influence a decision
or policy.
What is Old Labour? - Answer-Traditional Labour Party values: Redistribution of
wealth, extension of the public sector.
What is New Labour? - Answer-Modern Labour Party values: Socio-economic
reform.
What is One-Nationism? - Answer-A belief that promotes social and economic
programs that benefit the ordinary person (Coined by Benjamin Disraeli,
Conservative Prime Minister).
What is the New Right? - Answer-A conservative belief in more traditional economic
and social policies (Nuclear families, class divides).
What is Classical Liberalism? - Answer-A belief that emphasises economic freedom
and advocates that civil liberties should be protected by the law.
, What is Modern Liberalism - Answer-The belief that combines the ideas of civil
liberties and equality and supports social justice and a mixed economy.
What is a mixed economy? - Answer-An economic system combining private and
public enterprise.
What are Party Systems? - Answer-Forms of government that allow for different
forms of control.
What is a One Party System? - Answer-A Dictatorship.
What is a Two Party System? - Answer-A party system where two major political
parties dominate the government.
What is a Multiparty System? - Answer-A government that has more than 2 parties,
(most European countries have this).
What is the Left Wing? - Answer-Democrats/liberals/socialists/communists
What is the Right Wing? - Answer-Republicans/conservatives/fascists
How does a First Past The Post (FPFP) system work? - Answer-The electorate votes
for a candidate from a party to represent them in a seat, the party with 326 seats or
more wins.
what are the disadvantages of FPFP? - Answer-Gerrymandering can occur, Minority
rule can occur, little political diversity.
How does an Additional Member System work? - Answer-Voters have two votes:
one for their favourite candidate, one for their favourite party.
What are the advantages of an Additional Member System? - Answer-
Gerrymandering cannot occur, Minority rule cannot occur, there is political diversity.
How does a Single Transferable Vote system work? - Answer-Instead of voting for
one candidate, voters rank the candidates in the order that they are tolerable to
them, if any of the candidates are over the amount of votes that they need to win
they are part of the parliament. If there are no more candidates with a sufficient
amount of votes then the candidate with the least amount of votes is removed and
their voter's 2nd choices are observed, these are then added to the scores of the
other candidates accordingly. This process is repeated until there is an amount of
candidates elected that is proportional to the populations.
What are the advantages of a Single Transferable Vote system? - Answer-More
proportionate of the voter demographics, voters believe that they influence change,
discourages voter disillusionment.
How does supplementary vote work? - Answer-Voters decide their first and second
choice of candidate. If there is no candidate with a majority then the candidate with
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