The pyschological attachment you have with your party, and the long term manifestation of strongly held beliefs and loyalties. The long-term allegiance to a political party.
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Partisan Dealignment
The breakdown of the long-term allegiance with a political party, since the 1970's
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Class Alignment
Relates to the strong association of membership of a social class with the support for a political party. The social class system closely mirrors that of the party system.
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Class Dealignment
The breakdown of the strong association of membership of a social class with the support of a political party. In the 1900' the Torie's lost a lot of support from professionals and managerials, and Labour lost support from the working class.
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Embourgeoisement
The tendency for better off working class to have aspirations to be more like the middle class in their social and voting behavior.
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Turnout
The number of people who attend a particular event, eg a general election. The turnout in 2010 was 65%, whereas, in 1950 the turnout was 83.9%.
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Electorate
Relates to all the qualified and eligible voters. All of the electorate must 18 and over and be registered to vote, however, prisoners and the mentally ill are not eligible to vote in elections.
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Abstainers
People who do not vote, maybe due to involuntary reasons eg sickness, not registered or maybe because of a more deliberate reasons.
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Representative Democracy
People/electorate elect representatives who make decisions on their behalf. Britain use Representative Democracy.
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Direct Democracy
Citizens themselves assemble to debate and discuss issues of public interest. Referendums are a form of direct democracy.
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The Party Identification Theory
Gives a sense of identity, a psychological attachment to a party and a long-term manifestation of strongly held beliefs and loyalties. Learnt political attitudes and behavior through the process of growing up, via families and school.
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The Sociological Theory
Your social characteristic determine/influence the way you vote. Eg religion, culture, ethnicity (in 1997 89% of blacks and 81% of Asians voted Labour) gender, age, social class (class alignment) working class-labour upper, class-conservatives.
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The Rational Choice Theory
Make a rational judgement, so consequently vote in a calculated and deliberate way. People vote for the party that best suits and fulfills their requirements at that moment in time.
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The Dominant Ideology Theory
Media misinterprets/distorts political communication. The electorate are more likely to be influence by what they hear, see or read.
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Card 2
Front
Partisan Dealignment
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The breakdown of the long-term allegiance with a political party, since the 1970's
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