Political Parties Relevance Flashcards
Quotes Democratic
“The flaw is the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.”
-Elmer Schattschneider
“Party membership in the UK is tiny” Alberto Nardelli
“Low voter turnout is clearly a problem”
U.K.
Matthew Flinders
Participation
Participation
Left wing parties have younger voters meaning this will hopefully increase
US
Democrats have 48 million members
Republicans have 36 million members
About a quarter of population (330m) a Member
U.K.
About a 100th of population (60m) a member
Labour’s 430,000 members and the Conservative had about 200,000 members
Party ID
Party Identification Theory
2019 U.K. General Election
SNP retained 87% of the vote from the previous General Election in 2017
Just a 1% change in the percentage of Asian Americans who voted for the Democrat Presidential Nominee between 2016 and 2020
The SNP won 35/59 seats in the 2017 General Election U.K. and won 48/59 seats in the 2019 U.K. General Election
Biden flipped 5/50 states in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Representation
Representation
Party based elections
U.K. Voter Turnout was 67% in the 2019 U.K. Election
Voter Turnout was just 49% in the 2017 French Election
There was an 87% Voter Turnout in the 2018 Swedish Election
There was an 82% Voter Turnout in the 2020 New Zealand Election
Party Theories
Bring in theories from Interest Groups
Iron Law of oligarchy: States that the organisation of political parties - even those formally committed to democracy - becomes dominated by a ruling elite
Experts
Experts Jan Van Deth
“Few Parties have displayed the old”
Andrew Haywood
A “weakness” of party identification theory is “the growing evidence from a number of countries of partisan dealignment”
Andrew Haywood
“The only part of the world which political parties do not exist are where those are dismissed”
Leadership
Leaders
Yes
2019- Boris Johnson beat Jeremy Hunt in a popular vote He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656.
Only people who wanted best for party voted so non party couldn’t sabotage it
No - Only Conservative party members could vote for Boris Johnson
The 10 candidates (need 8 Conservative MPs)in the First Round were narrow down to 2 by a series of votes by Parliamentary
Conservatives MPs
USA
Yes
A total of 29 major candidates declared their candidacies for the primaries,
18 of the 29 declared candidates withdrew before the formal beginning of the primary due to low polling, fundraising, and media coverage.
On April 8, Biden became the presumptive nominee after Sanders, the only other candidate remaining, withdrew from the race.[11] In early June, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to win the nomination.
Delegate system based off proportional representation for each state.
In total, seven candidates received pledged delegates: Biden, Sanders, Warren, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar and U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard.
Scotland
Yes No one believed they stood a chance against Sturgeon
No No choice for anyone
Party democratic essay
Representation para
One comparison voter turnout
Point out choice comparison with 10 U.K. and 2 USA or 14 SA 2019
