political parties Flashcards

Question

how many seats did Lib Dem win in1997

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2006 after Nick Clegg became leader

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promote international co-operaton vote on the final brexit deal remaning in the single market

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support capital investment increasing tax on corporations encouraging a libing wage

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making benefit system fairier for young and disabled people reform benfits assessments revserse cons policies that cut benefits for some people

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where only one party has a realstic cha ce of winning political power

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only one political party exists and all others are banned

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only two parties have a chance of wining and so power shifts between the two the FPTP system is more likely to result in a two party sytems

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minor party support decreasing -UKIP support has collapsed -green party only have 1 mp in parliament -labour and conservtaive have hi=gherst chance ofnforming governemnt

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Representation Formulating policy Foster participation

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Political party, election and referendums act 2000

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Over £7,500

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Representation Recruitment Participation Governing Formulating policy Electoral function

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Trade unions e.g. UNITE donated £1.5 milliom

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Corporations due to pro business stance

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Cons - £18m Lab £11m Lib Dem - £4

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Political parties, elections and referendums act 2000

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Ban on foreign donation £20 million spending cap in general elections No anonymous donations of £5000+ Submission of weekly funding reports

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-Removes spectre of corruption from donations to major parties -Helps minority party -elections are democratic so funding should be fair

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Raises question and diffculty of fair redistribution of money Many may resent their taxes going to politicians Freedom should mean option mot absolute requirement

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-directly assigned to local branch:responsibility to select candidates and send delegates to CLP -CLP:organise party on constituency level but role diminish by OMOV -NEC: oversee policy proposals, final say on parliamentary candidates, enforce party discipline

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Constituency labour party

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Once the sovereign policy making body Role diminished in the 1990s

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Conservative Associations - help with administration of elections and campaigns

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Conservative parties in devolved regions E.g. Scottish conservatives and welsh conservative oarty

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National conservative convention 1922 committee CChq Board of the conservative party

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A committee for the private conservative members in the house of commons

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Make decisions for the voluntary party itself

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Emphasises MP power Vote on candidates and whittled down to 2 Vote is then open to every single member of party OMOV Often popularity vote

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sociological - linked to a member of a group e.g class party identification - loyalty, tradition, family issue voting - short term factors

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social class gender party loyalty religion region

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until 1970 was stable, labour = working class,cons = middle/upper class dealignment and ideological centralisation in 2010 only 38% were class voters in 1966 this was 66%

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traditionally women voted cons until 1990s new labour in 2010 men were most likely to vote conservative wihtin the under 50s

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declining and reflects declining membership levels in 2005 only 10% claimed to have strong party identity in 2005 there were 258,239 members of the Party. By the beginning of 2010 membership had fallen to 177,000. In the three years from 2010 to 2012 membership fell a further 44,000 to 133,000

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in 2015 42% of ethnic minorities were more likely to vote labour

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historically labour = north and cons = south except central london being labour afilloiated

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economic performance policy leadership tactical voting party image campaigning

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labour suffered during the 20008 recession

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blair - accomplished figure with good media presence tahtcher - strong assertive leader 1990s - cons had bad public image May described as "nasty party" labour struggle with perception that they are reckless with finances

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cons spent £78m in 2015 election, but may not be useful; in the newspapers especially those owned by Murdoch

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require 20% of MP support and 5% of of either constituency parties support OMOV ballet AV electoral system

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both have oMOV - not always been case as prior to 1998 only cons MPs could participate in their leadership elections and labour had EC system until 2015 candidates must be MPs but this is not the case for the Green Party candidates require both support from MPs in their party some mPs may be reluctant to support a challenge to the incumbent leader

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since mid 1970s PMs have taken office following a leadership election rather than a GE (Callaghan, major, brown, may, Johnson, truss) raises questions on democracy and how enfranchised the electorate are, does the PM who has not faced GE have the mandate to govern?

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nationalisation redistribution of income and wealth extended public sector sought to modify capitalism

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abandoned clause iv found a third way between Thatcherism and socialism aimed to appeal to all classes testing and controlling education

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small parties e.g SNP and Sinn Fein have grown in the devolved assemblies in 2021 snap had 68/128 seats cons and labour are not popular uk political parties becoming more factionalised e.g. divisions over Brexit 2010 coalition

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only parties able to form govt have been lab and cons coalitions don't show multi party system they show a decline in the majority party total popularity minor parties only gain traction for singular issues