Brexit referendum - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Evaluate the extent to which political parties should be state funded (yes) 1. Big donations don't control policy Vs. Corruption will decline 2. State funding can be biased Vs. break two party dominance 3. Taxes are undemocratic Vs. Increase political participation 4. Parties campaigning all constituencies to gain money Vs. better time management and focus on policies To what extent does the UK have a two party system? Yes 1. Coalition Vs. Usually, one of two parties form the government ...

10 essay plans democ participation. next slides: Should voting be compulsory ? ......YES- Increased participation. e.g Australia had a declining voting turnout-60% 1924, however has remained a steady 90% since. NO -Violates individual freedoms- Therefore limiting validity behind vote. -Worthless voting. YES Greater legitimacy- Labour 05 only had 22% of electorate, compulsory voting would sort out current turnout crisis and increase legitimacy. NO Cosmetic democracy, compulsory votin...

Evaluate the extent to which pressure groups widen the distribution of political power. (30 marks) - ANS R1: - Help represent those often ignored by government. 2009 Gurkha campaign. Cp: Most successful groups are insider representing a minority such as the CIB. R3: Sectional groups play a key role of representing a group in society. National farmers union, 2013 badgers cull. Cp: Doesn't distribute political power insider groups just enclose more power for a minority. Animal rights groups...

1. Question: An instructor wants to compare spread (variation) of final grades of students in her online class and face-to-face class. The instructor selects 10 students randomly from each class and the following table shows the final grades of those students. See Attached Excel for Data. 2. Question: The lengths (in kilometers) of rivers on the South Island of New Zealand that flow to the Tasman Sea are listed below. Find the variance. See Attached Excel for Data. Use the Excel function to fin...

Direct democracy - ANSWER-all individuals express their opinions themselves and not through representatives acting on their behalf Representative democracy - ANSWER-an individual selects a person to act on their behalf Similarities of representative and direct democracy - ANSWER-based on a majority Differences of direct and representative democracy - ANSWER-direct is not elective, direct is for individuals, direct has more citizen involvement Legitimacy - ANSWER-the right to exerci...

Evaluate how far the power of the executive has been undermined by constitutional reforms since 1997 PARA 1 - P1 - P1 - devolution Blair, as part of his democratising reforms, enabled referendums to be held on devolving legislative powers to Scotland, Wales and NI. This has undermined the power of the executive by granting other assemblies powers that used to be held at westminster. Westminster now has no say on certain areas of legislation in devolved assemblies. 1997 resulted in an overwh...

Evaluate the extent to which constitutional reform has significantly improved Democracy in the UK. (or Evaluate the extent to which constitutional reform in the UK since 1997 has removed constitutional weakness) para 1 - failed to remove weakness - Demo deficit - House of Lords Act (1998) → all but 92 hereditary peers were removed and replaced by life peers, which are appointed by the government of the day + remain for life/retirement. Unelected and not accountable to the electorate. = un...

Assess whether direct democracy should be more widely used in the UK (30) - ANS Paragraph 1 - Yes It encourages more political participation bc people themselves chooses Purest form of democracy giving it a high legitimacy This can be seen in Referendums E.g Brexit 2016 Other places like Switzerland uses direct democracy More referendums like Scotland 1997 and Wales 1997 allowed devolution to be created - name keys examples of how this was good E.g having its own electoral system & the whi...

AP Human Geography: Political Geography Rated A+ Political Geography A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface. It is concerned with why political spaces emerge in the places that they do and with how the character of those spaces affects social, political, economic, and environmental understandings and practices. Territory Area of land controlled by a...

Key issues with brexit In putting Brexit into effect the UK authorities faced a number of issues: -How much economic damage was the UK willing to take in order to obtain the ability to depart from EU legal standards (as doing so would inevitably result in loss of access to the EU Single Market)? -How could Brexit be made legal reality without causing an enormous legal vacuum to open up? -The Northern Ireland peace agreement had been designed on the assumption that Ireland and the UK would ...