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| A composite number used by the UN to measure and compare levels of achievement in health, knowledge, and standard of living. HDI is based on the following indicators: life expectancy, adult literacy rate, school enrollment statistics, and gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity |
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| An approach that gives priority to government regulation of the economy named after British economist John Maynard Keynes |
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| Austrian-Hungarian-American economist and political scientist. Challenged classical definition of democracy |
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| Schumpeter's definition of democracy |
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| Arrangement for arriving at political decisions where individuals get power to decide by means of competitive struggle for the people's vote. (we need to be able to "throw the rascals out") |
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| Philosophy of governing brought upon by Margaret Thatcher from 1979-1990. Conservative strategy with emphasis on tax cuts and reduced social services. Subscribes to the idea that collectivism weakens industry. Emphasis on competitiveness |
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| Leader of the Conservative Party. Elected so in 2005. Appealed directly to the youth championing modernization and pragmatism. Current PM, elected in 2012, head of the coalition gov. Focus on "Big Society" |
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| Democratic political systems that have been solidly and stably established for an ample period of time and in which there is relatively consistent adherence to the core democratic principles |
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| the ability of a parliamentary group of a political party to get its members to support the policies of their party leadership |
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| Acts of Parliament that gradually afforded the people of the UK to vote. Major reforms in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1918, and 1948 |
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| Former editor of News of the World (2003-2007). Resigned after a reporter convicted of phone hacking. After, joined Cameron's personnel as communications director until he resigned Jan 2011 and was arrested |
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| A set of public policies designed to provide for citizens’ needs through direct of indirect provision of pensions, health care, unemployment insurance, and assistance to the poor. Anti-Thatcherism |
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| Parliamentary Sovereignty |
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| Grants legislative body the power to make or overturn any law and there’s no veto or judicial review |
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| Stance of New Labour party under Blair and Brown. Wanted to offer a new path that wasn’t collectivism or Thatcherism. Focused on modernization and reform of British politics. Brown and Blair however didn’t get along well after coming to office. Brown focused on international economy |
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| Former Secretary of State for Climate Change under Brown. Beat out brother, David for leadership of the Labour Party in 2010. Was very close to Brown. Wants to turn away from New Labour without returning to “Old Labour” |
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| Parliament has ALL powers, no separation of power |
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| PM selects about 22 cabinet members who must be a PM or House of Lord member. PM must gain support from majority of cabinet to make big moves. They have actual responsibility |
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| Approach to economic policy that assumes a natural rate of unemployment , determined by the labor market, and rejects the instruments of government spending to run budgetary deficits for stimulating the economy and creating jobs |
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