Political Parties
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- Created by: Harriet Trollope-Bellew
- Created on: 09-12-13 15:45
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- Political Parties
- What are they
- A group of likeminded individuals with share aims and goals by being elected into government at general elections.
- Mainstream/Minority
- 3 mainstream parties- Labour , conservatives and Lib Dems
- A Party which is either a nationalist or a single-issue party, e.g. Green party and Scottish national party
- 3 mainstream parties- Labour , conservatives and Lib Dems
- Single issue parties
- Is a party that has one particular issue e.g. Green party- Environment
- Single/ dominant/ multi party
- Single - one party dominant in government e.g. Nazi Germnay.
- Dominant - is when a number of parties are running but only one wins e.g. Japan under Lib Dems 1955. Multi- many parties compete and it results in many coalition governments,e.g. Italy 1945-1993
- Single - one party dominant in government e.g. Nazi Germnay.
- Internal party democrary
- A measure of the extent to which rank-and-file members have genuine power within a given political party
- Roles of pol parties
- Representation, Participation, Recruitment, Policy formation and stable government
- PPEA/PPERA
- PPERA- Overall limit on party spending in general election campaigns (£30,000 per constituency)PPEA- 2009- built regulations under PPERA
- Party Reform
- A new system for more transparent - they offer loans for eerages. Make efforts to reduce tax payers not registered in Uk under PPEA
- Shortmoney Cranborne
- Short money- comprises those funds paid to opposition parties in order to help them cover their administrativecosts and thereby provide proper scrutiny of the government . Cranborne money- In Houds of Lords
- Policy Formation
- Conservatives
- 1990s- determined by part leader- John Major 1992 election 'it was all me'
- Lib Dems
- The party is a federal structure. If a policy only affect scotland, will be developed in scottish party and confirmed at the conference. The party leadership's influence over the Federal Policy Committee allows them to steer policy to a degree
- Labour
- 1997- 2-year policy making cycle. The national policy forum appointed policy commisions make propsals =national executive committee before passed at conference.
- Conservatives
- What are they
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