Enhancing Democracy and Funding

Question 1

P.P enhance democracy

Answer 1

1. Encourage people to participate
2. Provide voters with choice
3. Educate and Inform electorate
4. Representation of public
5. Uphold the authority of parliament

Question 2

P.P threaten democracy

Answer 2

1. Adversarial Politics = silly rituals and point-scoring between
   politicians.
2. Turnout at elections is low
3. Oversimplifying issues or misleading info
4. Election campaigns are only successful if parties are largely
   funded

Question 3

What does electoral commission do

Answer 3

keeps a record of every donation to a P.P above £7500

Question 4

Who can make donations

Answer 4

1. someone on UK electoral register
2. UK registered companies
3. registered political party
4. a trade union or friendly societys

Question 5

Political Party income in 2016 (recorded by EC)

Answer 5

Labour - £49.8m

Cons - £28.3m

Lib dems - £8.5M

SNP - £4.9m

UKIP- £3.4m

Question 6

Should State Funding exist (GOOD)

Answer 6

1. stops wealthy groups influencing parties
2. Parties can focus on electorates not fundraising
3. smaller parties get more financial support
4. less wealthy PG will get a more equal hearing by parties

Question 7

Should State Funding exist ( BAD )

Answer 7

1. Taxpayers should not be funding P.P
2. Hard to allocate funds between P.P