Politics Bridging Work Flashcards
Power
The capability to exact your influence over others
Authority
A person or organisation having control or power over a population.
Legitimacy
The ability to legally justify the validity of your actions.
Direct democracy
A form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policies without elected representatives.
Representative democracy
A form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policies.
Sovereignty
The authority of a state to govern itself with supreme power.
Parliamentary sovereignty
A concept in constitutional law of same parliamentary democracies. It holds that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all government institutions.
Referendum
When a question is decided by putting it to a public vote.
Westminster model
A system of government in which people do not directly elect their government but leave it to the elected legislature to install, supervise and remove the government.
Manifesto
A written statement outlining what a group stands for and how they plan to effect change for the country.
Mandate
An official order of commission to do something.
Party system
A system in which people vote for political parties in a democratic country. The UK has a two party system, only two political parties have a realistic chance of winning.
Electoral system
A system or set of rules that determines how an election takes place.
