political ps essay qs

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1. Evaluate the case for introducing the state funding of parties.

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2. Evaluate the extent to which the funding of parties should be controlled and reformed.

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3. Using the source

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evaluate the view that state funding of political parties would be preferable

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to a situation in which a party can win a general election because it has more members and income

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than other parties.

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4. Using the source

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evaluate the view that in a democracy MPs are free to ignore referendum

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results and their own political party’s manifesto.

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5. Using the source

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evaluate the view that ‘pick-and-mix’ politics is replacing ‘Left-Right’ politics

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and political parties are becoming more internally divided than ever.

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6. Evaluate how far the modern Conservative Party may be described as a ‘one-nation’ party.

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7. Evaluate the extent to which modern Conservative policies do not conform to the traditional

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ideas of the party.

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8. Evaluate how far the Labour Party has remained true to its traditional principles.

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9. Using the source

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evaluate the view that the Labour party today has completely abandoned the

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principles of New Labour.

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10. Evaluate the extent of internal divisions within the current UK political parties.

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11. Evaluate the view that the only political parties that matter in our political system are the

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Labour and Conservative parties.

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12. ‘The UK is best described as having a two-party system’. How far do you agree with this view?

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13. Using the source

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evaluate the view that major parties still remain the dominant force in UK

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politics.

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14. Evaluate the view that the two-party system is over in Britain.

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15. Evaluate the extent to which small parties have an impact on UK politics today.

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16. Evaluate the view that small parties are having an increasingly important impact on UK politics.

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17. Evaluate the extent to which the UK has become a multiparty democracy.

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18. Evaluate the extent to which the media can influence support for political parties.