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| coalition of British Liberals and Social Democrats in the 1980s that became the Liberal Democrats of today |
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| members of a parliament who aren't in the government or shadow cabinet |
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| Published in the 1940s; set the stage for British welfare state |
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| Collective responsibility |
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| the doctrine that all cabinet members must agree with all decisions |
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| Cross-party British support for the welfare state that lasted until the late 1970s |
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| Confederation of British Industry [CBI] |
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| The leading British business interest group |
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| Britain's most important right-of-center party, in power for more often than not for 2 centuries |
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| EU Council of Permanent Representatives |
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| In Europe, arrangements thru which gov't, business, and labor leaders cooperatively set microeconomic or macroeconomic policy, normally outside the regular electoral legislative process. |
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| courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes" |
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| The process of decentralizing power from the national gov'ts that stops short of federalism |
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| One of the precursors of the EU, formed in 1951 |
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| The new European currency, introduced in 1999 |
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| people opposed to the expansion of the EU'S power |
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| Electoral system based on single-member districts in which the candidate who receives the most votes wins |
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| a practical peace agreement reached by the major parties in Northern Ireland w/ the British and Irish governments on Good Friday 1998 |
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| the belief that changes occur, or ought to occur, slowly in the form of gradual steps |
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| law passed in 1832 that expanded the suffrage; widely seen as a key step towards democracy in Britain |
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| the all-important lower house of the British Parliament |
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| the weaker upper house of the British Parliament, slated for reform or abolition |
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| the leading left-wing party in Britain, in power since 1997 |
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| #3 party in Britain, and in some ways the most radical |
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| Created the EU and EMU, signed in 1992 |
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| the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 |
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| in Britain and other parliamentary systems, another term for a party's platform in an election campaign |
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