Political Parties Flashcards
Supporting the status quo - for little or no change. Stress the importance of order, stability, hierarchy and private property.
Right wing
Desire change, reform and alteration to the way that society operates, including socialists, who are critical of the capitalist or free market economy.
Left wing
A group of people drawn together by a similar set of beliefs, known as a ideology.
Political party
Functions a political party forms within a democratic system.
Representation Participation Recruiting office holders Formulating policy Providing government
What are MP’s paid from
General taxation with a basic salary in 2017 of 76,000
A paternalistic approach adopted by the conservatives under the leadership of Benjamin Disraeli in the 19th century and continued by David Cameron and Theresa May in the 21st Century
One Nation Conservatism
An approach which combines the thinking of neo conservatives who wanted the state to take a more authoritarian approach to morality and law and order
AND
the thinking of neo liberals who endorsed the red market and the rolling back of the state in people’s lives and businesses.
New Right Conservatism
What does Thatcherism close ideas include.
Economic policy
Welfare policy
Law and order
Foreign policy
Endorsers key labour principles embodying nationalisation, redistribution of wealth from rich to poor and the provision of continually improving the welfare and state services.
Old Labour (social democracy)
A revision of the traditional ‘Old Labour’ values and ideas, involving a shift in emphasis from a heavy focus on the working class to a wider class base; and less robust alliance with the trade unions.
New Labour (third way)
These are key features of which political party:
Emphasis on wealth creation rather than distribution
People need to be aware of their responsibility to the community as well as their rights
Responsibility in handing the national finances
Enlisting the public sector to deliver public services
Influence of the ideology on labour thinking
New Labour in power
Labour policies in the Corbyn era
Economic policy
Welfare state
Law and order policy
Foreign policy
Early liberals who believed that individual freedom would best be achieved with the state playing a minimal role.
Classical liberals
Liberals who believe that, under the free market capitalism, many individuals are not truly free, and the state must help them in a more active way
Modern Liberals
What do the Liberal Democrat’s stand for
Economic policy
Welfare policy
Law and order
Foreign policy
