The UK political system Flashcards
1
Q
what is majoritarian democracy?
A
- flexible constitution easily amended
- Executive is dominant and controls the legislature
- courts cannot challenge the constitutionality of legislation
- Unitary state with concentrated central power
- single party govs produced
- adversarial two-party system
2
Q
What is a consensual democracy?
A
- Rigid constitution
- balance of power between exec and leg
- courts can strike down leg
- Federal system w/ power divided between tiers of gov
- Prop rep -coalition gov
- multi party system
3
Q
What type of democracy is the UK?
A
mostly Majoritarian
4
Q
The British constitution
A
- uncodified
- P/ment decides what is constitutional
- no special procedures for amendments
5
Q
P/mentary sovereignty
A
- legislate on any subject
- cannot be overturned by higher authority
- no p/ment can bind its successor
