different electoral systems Flashcards

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who are left behind voters?

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voters from areas of low socioeconmic backgrounds and economic deprivation in north and middle eastern england. they are seen to be politically neglected through policy failiures and they are alineted voters.

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the offical leave campaign for the brexit referendum run by ukip

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used targeted marketing for online advertismenbts and social media ro get vote leaves content to different segments of the population who were more neo conservative or nationalistic/patriotic. especially targeted left behind voters

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it was emotional and nostalgic for patriotism for a past before multicultural britian

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as political figures they added legitimacy to the campaign as the movement was made of unlected political advisors and right wing businessmen

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350M was the cost of being in eu and could be used on the nhs instead. it now costs 3bn more to leave the eu annually than it would've to stay. nhs was very popular for a lot of leave voters especially left behind or those in low deprived areas

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evoked fears of immigration exploited by vote leave in dog whistle social media adverts and also by the unofficial leave to project fear implying false eu movement could mean mass immigration from turkey 17m people. even though turkey was not and did not intend to join eu

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when people no longer vote according to social class

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voter who will always almost vote for one party

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a voter who is willing to consider changing the party they voted for from election to election

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no longer voting for a particular political party you always voted for

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a group of people based on their social and economic status

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they are skilled manual workers and thet can swing in large numbers between cons and labs and this can decide an election

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thatcherite reforms meaning deindustrialization and a structural change in the economy to laissez-faire economics. shift from industrial to service economy.

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turnout tends to be higher among 65=75% compared to just under 50% for 18-24 so political parties have a manifesto policies that appeal to older generations that benefit them over younger like protecting pensioners with the triple lock

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BAME have a lower turnout than white 52% to white 65% nin 2019 GE. BAME has less effect for labour outside urban areas (london)

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traditionally A, B, C , C1, MC - conservative C2, D, E (working class) - labour

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in 2019 39+ and 2017 37+ there was a shift towards conservatives. the party tends to focus on concerns for older people more in their policie (pensions, limits on social reforms, low taxes as older people have secured more assests statiscally in life) as voter turnout for older ishigher than younger it makes sense for their policies to appeal more to older generations

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traditionally womeb skewed conservative due to trad family values and men tended to vote labour as the party of workers and traditional gender roles meant men went out to wortk. however in modern trends, gender is too large a criterion to judge effectively as an electoral factor perhaps more reated to age- younger women tend more to labourt, younger men conservative

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BAME voters tends labour ge 2019 - 64% vote labour compared to white 29% bame a minority (13%)- also voter turnout lower than white eg 52% to white 63% in 2019 GE and BAME vote has less effect fort Labour outside some urban areas like london, birmingham bradford etc

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suggests voters will make a rational or logical judgement based on their own best interest. however this assumes voters are fully informed about the issue.

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suggests voters place on issue above all others and cast their vote solely based on this.

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an issue where voters share a common preference

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the desire for the country to be economically prosperous. voters cast their vote on who they believe is best placed to deliver this.

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2019- Johnson harnessed to win the 2019 GE due to his focus on Brexit to 'get it done'. arguably the 2017 GE was not won as May did not focus strongly on Brexit and took a soft approach in contrast to boris Johnson's hard approach the party system almost broke down as labours voters wanted to leave 37% and even under cameron conservative politicians wanted leave 58%. the referendum exposed key social divisions and was highly disruptive to british politics.

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of belief/ philosphy

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-one nation -tradtional and new right

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new right/ thatcherite

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she downplayed the role of her key advisor sir keith joseph

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the country was more centre left at the time, many industries were nationalised under labour and 53% of workers belonged to trade unions

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Callaghan who was unpopular due to winter of discontent which made electoral suffer. inflation ran higher than wages leading to strikes in public services. ex: bins were uncollected and even grave diggers striked meaning some people weren't buried. meanwhile callaghan was abroad in carribean and was mocked by the media for not handling the crisis 'crisis, what crisis'

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-john major lost while tony blair won

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appealed to middle class abandoned commitments to nationalisation having strong trade unions and high taxes. this meant middle class were less put off by new labour as they shifted centre right. like cons he would be tough on crime

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'beacuse britain deserves better'

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cons lost due to valence issues and low governing competancy, memories of poor economic policies 1992, the maastricht treaty

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personal misconduct scandals for david mellor and financial sleeze 'cash for questions' concerning neil hamilton, tim smith major failed to regain competancy and faith and trust of public with his back to basics campaign

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- stressed social conservatism -undermined the cons party traditional family value thinking, shifting them socially left after a period of new right ideologies of the nuclear family. this caused confusion and discontent

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a peactime coalition since 1930s

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gordon brown- due to blairs financial crisis 2007-8 and its substantial gov debt, as well as the effects morally of the iraq war he had bad personality to appeal to voters and had a weak campaign as well as supporting blairs stances which was unpopular with the country

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a hung parliament as cons won a lot of seats but not enough to be a majority party. thus they had to join with lib-dems where clegg agreed to the coalition

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-lasted a full five year term as clegg and cameron were ideologically closer than people assumed. clegg was an orange book classical liberal who sympathised with camerons one nation instincts

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-move from soft left which he was intially voted as a leader for in 2020, where he wanted to abolish, UC,tuition fees,shift towards centre to make them more electable

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-no increase to any income tax or tax for working people, centrist appealing to conservative voters too increasing their governing competency,, tarnished by a old left wing labour ideology of tax and spend manifesto under corbyn where 2019 lab did badly.

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sunak made one blunder after the other lowering their governing competency as a party. he also tried to issue unpopular policies like national service, or rwanda plan which went against HRA

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from 2019 where 40 red wall seats were lost, starmer moved the party to centre focusing on valence issues like economic stability being the core. many conditional cons voters wo were previously labour shifted due to promises of levelling up that were not carried out so there was a shift back to labour. due to covid and ukraine this drove up govt spending and borrowing meaning inflation rose to 11 and fell back down around 2.3% by 2024, but many were still under a feel bad influence not trusting the conservative rule

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party gate led to a feeling that cons had lost their social conservatism appeal to its core voter as well as political instability led by party rebellions. furthermore, the matt hancock issue made voters upset and there was an uproar.

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all but 2 seats were won back in the 2024 election. one was retained as a labour mp moved to reform due to his anti-mass migration ideology, where he won the seat with a strong mandate.

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sunaks failiure to implement this plan meant that there was a loss of core and red walla voters who were conservative and moved to reform. reform gained 4more mp conservatives after 2024.

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as venues for messages that are created for consumption by large numbers of people. the media has a remarkable impact on politics.

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the printing press a traditional media has significantly declined in readership especially amongst young people. newspapers sitll have influence setting the agenda for that days news. new forms of communication such as social media has become more important with many young and older generatuons primarily consuminf their political news through mediums like facebook an twitter. this has led to a concern over the surge of fake news . this can have a major effect on voter choice in elections

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terrestrial broadcasters maintain impartiality and balance in political broadcasting, however newspapers and internet websites do not need to comply to this. most national newspapers except the gaurdian, independant generally support right wing conservative values, and many readers still read this even if they do not buy newsoapers for its politics. this can impact and shape young people's political views unknowingly.

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newspapers endorse particular politcal paeties and spend their time supporting and prasing that party and attacking and negatively shapiing the opposititon. in 2015 ed miliband was shaped negatively, his father was shown as an enemy of britain due to his left wing views and his own presentaitional style was criticised

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in 2015 ed miliband was shaped negatively, his father was shown as an enemy of britain due to his left wing views and his own presentaitional style was criticised

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neil kinnock was shaped to be negative for british politics with the sun printing slogans like 'will the last person to leave britian turn the lights out' to portray him in a negative light

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the media often adds cynicism surrounding uk politics and politicians. tabloid press focuses on political scandals and allegations of incompetence and failures. as a result politicians emphasise a duty to deal with this through extensive media training which leads to the impression that they are avoidant of questions, appearing carefully staged to avoid rephrasing or misquoting. this makes them seem robotic and out of touch the way politicians present themselves to the media may impact what people think of them, whereas newspapers and media ain general portray politicians and parties in a particular way

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people tend to consume and belibe newspapers that support their existing point of vieqw and they recognuse the bias in the media which may not reflect their view , any media that reflects their view is seen as the truth or common sense on social media platforms people follow friends and journalist who are in line with their views creating a false impression that people are in line with a psrticular view/ echo chamber

different electoral systems Flashcards

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