UKIP Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Direct democracy - ANSWER-all individuals express their opinions themselves and not through representatives acting on their behalf Representative democracy - ANSWER-an individual selects a person to act on their behalf Similarities of representative and direct democracy - ANSWER-based on a majority Differences of direct and representative democracy - ANSWER-direct is not elective, direct is for individuals, direct has more citizen involvement Legitimacy - ANSWER-the right to exerci...

2015 General Election turnout? (evidence for different elections turnout dropping thus showing participation crisis) - ANS 66.1% What percentage of potential voters voted conservative in 2015 General Election (evidence for different elections turnout dropping thus showing participation crisis) - ANS 24.4% European Parliament Elections 1959 turnout (evidence for different elections turnout dropping thus showing participation crisis) - ANS 23% Police and Crime Commissioner 2015 election (evi...

'Evaluate the view that the only political parties that matter in our political system is labour and conservative' - INACCURATE - ANS 1) The two parties have struggled to deal with many of the issues that smaller parties have raise. UKIP - fringe nationalist party started in 1991, whose main objective was Britain's membership in the EU. It grew to a sense of dissatisfaction with the way the three main parties would have to accommodate to the quickening pace of European Intergration. In 20...

evaluate the case for state funding of parties in the uk (introduction) - - state funding - replace all funding with state grants for parties which would be paid using general taxation measures - ongoing debates and reform since 2000 where the funding of parties was regulated by the political parties, elections and referendums act - end opportunities for corrupt donations, end hidden influences through funding, it reduce the advantage that large parties have and give smaller parties the opp...

9 MARKERS - GOVERNMENT AND UK POLITICS - ANS Explain and analyse three circumstances under which referendums have been held in the UK. - ANS P1 - TO FULFIL PLEDGES MADE BY PARTY MANIFESTOS E1 - Labour in 1997, promised to hold a referendum on a mayor of LONDON. 2015 Tories said they would hold an IN/OUT ref on the EU P2 - TO SATISFY TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT E2 - AV in 2011, Lib Dem/Coalition Agreement P3 - WHERE GOV ITSELF IS DIVIDED E3 - EU Referendum (2016) with parliament and other membe...

Voting age lowered to 16 in favour - ANS Politically active sooner Younger generation are better informed Being able to vote on issues that affect them Demographic ignored (67% turnout 2017) Voting age lowered to 16 not in favour - ANS Uneducated/lack maturity No evidence to show it would increase participation Fewer countries allow u18s Other things unable to do "Participation crisis" yes - ANS Turnout in elections are low, decreasing since 1997 Membership of parties have declined Di...

Assess whether direct democracy should be more widely used in the UK (30) - ANS Paragraph 1 - Yes It encourages more political participation bc people themselves chooses Purest form of democracy giving it a high legitimacy This can be seen in Referendums E.g Brexit 2016 Other places like Switzerland uses direct democracy More referendums like Scotland 1997 and Wales 1997 allowed devolution to be created - name keys examples of how this was good E.g having its own electoral system & the whi...

Evaluate how far the UK system of representative democracy remains in need of improvement. - ANS Where it is working well: + Free and fair voting; Parliamentary function sovereignty; participation FPTP strengths: +stability: only 2/6 GE's in 2010's have produced coalitions or hung Parliaments +MP direct link to constituent, quick (i.e. Newcastle central declared 60 mins after poll closed, 2017) BUT: - 2 party dominate (Maurice Duverger's law) i.e. UKIP 2015, 12.6% of vote, 1 seat - Wa...

Comprehensive A* politics notes for the UK Political Parties. Includes key examples and arguments in favour of state party funding, an overview of the policies and factions within the Labour and Conservative parties (with loads of up to date examples), an overview of the UK's minor parties, and an A* essay plan on wether the UK is a two party system.

Using the source, evaluate the view that the major parties still remain the dominant force in UK politics. - ANS AGREE the source leads to the view that it would be difficult to operate our current system of representative democracy without the major political parties, they dominate both the process and ideas of mainstream politics • other parties have always existed but the sheer dominance of the major parties ensures their continued supremacy. AO1 major parties operate all the main fun...