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PKT PITA UK Method Flashcards

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Backbenchers

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A Member of Parliament (MP) with no executive responsibility. Basically the people in the “rank & file” who are not frontbench spokespersons for the Opposition.

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Beveridge Report

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Provided for a Social Insurance system that made all citizens eligible for health, unemployment, pension and other benefits provided by the government.

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Tony Blair

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Prime Minister representing the Labour Party from 1997 to 2007 and was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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BBC

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British Broadcasting Corporation – UK international public service broadcaster. Established by Royal Charter and funded by TV License fee charged to all British Households. Similar to PBS in the USA.

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BNP

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British National Party: Far Right Wing political party in UK. Established in 1982. Policies: Anti-immigration, pro Capital Punishment, Anti - Same Sex Marriage, Anti - Multiculturalism, Pro- sending immigrants back to their lands of origin – espacially hate the “islamification” of UK.

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Gordon Brown

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British Labour Party politician & Prime Minister from 2007 - 2010. Was Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Minister) in the Labour Government from 97-07.

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David Cameron

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Leader of Conservative Party & Prime Minister 2010 - Present.

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Caucuses

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NEED BETTER DEF: Basically the term originated in the US and refers a “smoke-filled room” meeting of a small group of people who negotiate with one another and ultimately pre-select a candidate for public office

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Civic Culture

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A 1963 non-fiction political science book that popularized the term “political subculture”. Written by Almond & Verba – studied democracy in 5 countries. In the UK, civic culture was characterized by trust, deference to authority and competence, pragmatism, and harmony.

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Clause 4

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Early history of the Labour Party was defined in part by the controversial “Clause 4” which called for the Nationalization of the “commanding heights” of British Industry

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Nick Clegg

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Deputy Prime Minister of UK since 2010. Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007, MP since 2005.

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Collective Consensus

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Cross-party British support for the welfare state that lasted until the late 1970s.

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Collective Responsibility

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Confederation of Business Industries

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Conservative Party

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Britain’s most important right of center party, in power more often than not for over two centuries.

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Constitution of the Crown

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Cultural Heterogeneity

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Democratic Unionist Party

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Devolution

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The process of dectralizing the power from national govenments that stops sort of federalism

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English Bill of Rights

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Euroskeptics

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People opposed to expansion of the EU’s power

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First Past the Post Voting System

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Electoral system based on the single-member district in which the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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The Glorious Revolution

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The Government

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Gradualism

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The belief that change should occur slowly or incrementally

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Hereditary Peers

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Home Rule

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Insularity

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Irish Republican Army

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The Iron Lady

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Keynesianism

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Labour Party

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The leading left-wing party in UK in power from 1997 - 2010.

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Law Lords

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Liberal Democratic Alliance

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Liberalism

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Life Peers

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Limited Government

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Loyal Opposition

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Magna Carta

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Misery Index

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Mixed Economy

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Multinationalism

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Neo-Corporatism

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Neo-Liberalism

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Noblesse Oblige

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OPEC

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Ox-bridge

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Parliamentary System

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Plaid Cymru

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Plurality Voting System

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Politics of Protest

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Proportional Representation

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Quangos

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Question Time

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Rational Legal Legitimacy

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Referendum

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Safe Districts

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Scottish National Party

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Shadow Cabinet

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In systems like UK’s the official leadership of the opposition party that “shadows” the cabinet.

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Sinn Fein

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Solidarity

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Speaker of the House

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Thatcherism

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The Third Way

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A term used to describe the new and more central left-wing parties of the 1990s, most notably Britain’s “New Labour”.

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Tories

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Trade Union Congress

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Traditional Leadership

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UK Independence Party

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Unitary Government

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Vote of Confidence

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Welfare State

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Whigs

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Ap Government Vocab (3 decks)

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