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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 are not in the government or shadow cabinet. |
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| Published in the 1940s and set the stage for the British welfare state. |
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| Confederation of British Industry. |
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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 more often than not for two centuries. |
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| In Europe, arrangements through which government, business, and labor leaders cooperatively set microeconomic or macroeconomic policy, normally outside of the regular electoral legislative process. In Mexico and elsewhere in the third world, another term to describe the way people are integrated into the system via patron-client relations. |
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| The process of decentralizing power from national governments that stops short of federalism. |
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| People opposed to 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 with the British and Irish governments, not surprisingly, on Good Friday 1998. |
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| The belief that change should occur slowly or incrementally |
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| Law passed in 1832 that expanded the suffrage and is widely seen as a key step toward 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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| Created the EU and EMU; signed in 1992 |
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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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| Elected members of the British or other parliament. |
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| Philosophies or attitudes that stress the importance of extending the power or support for a nation; government takeover of private business. |
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| Great Britain’s National Economic Development Council. |
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| Great Britain’s National Health Service. |
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| The members of parliament from a single party. |
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| The selling off of state-owned companies. |
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| Proportional representation |
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| Electoral system in which parties receive a number of seats in parliament proportionate to their share of the vote. |
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| Catholic Social Democratic Labour Party. |
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| Britain’s former Social Democratic Party |
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| In systems like Britain’s, the official leadership of the opposition party that “shadows” the cabinet. |
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| Conservative and first woman prime minister of Great Britain, 1979–90. |
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| A term used to describe the new and more central left-wing parties of the 1990s, most notably Britain’s “New Labour.” |
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| In a parliamentary system, statements to MPs that they must vote according to the party’s wishes. |
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| Informal name for Britain’s Conservative Party |
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| Trades Union Conference (TUC) |
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| Britain’s leading trade union confederation |
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| Trades Union Council in Great Britain; United Democratic Front in South Africa. |
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| In Britain and elsewhere, a government statement that outlines proposed legislation; the last stage before the submission of a formal bill |
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| A state that can control the pattern of alliances and terms of the international order and often shapes domestic political developments in countries throughout the world |
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| A form of democracy based on the supreme authority of Parliament and the accountability of its elected representatives; named after the Parliament building in London |
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| powers going to smaller unites. Parliament allows Scotland, wales, and N.I. to have own Parliaments. |
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| Parliamentary Sovereignty |
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| Parliament supreme. Always right to make or unmake laws. |
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| Control legislative agenda, chosen by parliament(Prime Minister) |
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| Upper class takes care of lower class |
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| Center of policy making. PM selects cabinet to support him. |
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| Whigs apposed king Charles II. Same platform, new name. |
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| Tories (Conservative Party) |
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| Supported King Charles II, usually upper class |
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| Started during industrial revolution |
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| about 300,000 men gained right to vote. House of commons gained more powerful in relation to house of lords. Class based, working class gained more electorate power |
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| 3 million many working class pl allowed to vote |
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| Representation of the people act of 1884 |
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| Electorate is further expanded to make sure that majority of electorate is working class |
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| All women over the age of 28 and all men over 21 granted the right to vote in 1918 by 1928 all women over 21 allowed to vote |
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Largest leftist party. alliance of trade unions and socialist groups. WORKING CLASS. public ownership of industries. Gov intervention in Economy
Welfare state |
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| modernized and centralized by PM Tony Blair from 1997-2010 |
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Main party of the right.
Pragmatic rather than ideological
hard core austerity
reduce taxes
reduce collective responsibility
DAVID CAMERON |
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Capable and firm
Privatized business/industry
cut social welfare
strengthened national defense |
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| Skeptical to Britain getting involved in European affairs. |
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Main party of the right.
Pragmatic rather than ideological
hard core austerity
reduce taxes
reduce collective responsibility
DAVID CAMERON |
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Capable and firm
Privatized business/industry
cut social welfare
strengthened national defense |
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| Skeptical to Britain getting involved in European affairs. |
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Largest 3rd Party- radical center
Alliance between liberals and social Democrats in 1989
56 seats in house of commons
Progressive tax, environmentalism, civil liberties
Leader Nick Clegg |
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| Quasi-Autonomous-Nongovernmental-Organizations created by Parliament to incorporate gov. and private interest into policy making. |
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