Political Parties Flashcards
(23 cards)
Aggregation
Converting policies, demands and ideas into practical policy programmes for government. Involves eliminating contradictions and making some compromises.
Cash for honours
The suspicion that some donations to parties are made in the hope and expectation that the giver will recieve an honour such as peerage or a knighthood.
Classical Liberalism
Nineteenth-century liberalism that propsed a limited state that would be confinded to protecting the freedom of individuals and maintaining the security of the state.
Consensus
A situation where two or more political parties in a political system agree on fundemental ideas and aims.
Democratic Socialism
A moderate form of socialism which proposes to achieve its aims by democratic means. Main objectives are to mix state control over production with market capitalism.
Dependency Culture
If welfare benefits are too generous in society, people become used to depending on such benefits, which become a deincentive to work. This culture is passed fown from one generation to the next.
Left Wing
A general description of polocies that conform to socialist principles.
Liberal Democracy
A democracy in which rights and equality are guaranteed and promoted.
A party or political stance that stresses the importance of democracy and rights
Libertarianism
Extreme for of neo-liberalism. Proposes that the government should interfere as little as possible with economic and social activity.
Modern liberals
Liberals who came to prominence after classical liberalism began to decline at the end of the nineteenth-century. Modern liberals would tolerate an expanded role for the state onto areas of social justice, welfare and equality of oppertunity.
New Labour
The Labour party under Tony Blair, which moved towards a more centrist position in politics after the mid-1990s.
New Right
A conservative movement thag arose in the 1980s which combined an authoritarian form of neo-conservatism with an economically liberal form of neo-liberalism.
One-nation Conservatism
The collection of traditional values held by many conservatives. Refers to the idea that conservative policies should promote social cohesion and reduce social conflict between the classes.
Part Faction
A distict group within a political party whise views vary significantly from the main party policies.
Party System
How many parties flourish within a political system and have an influence e.g. two party, three party systems.
Policy
Intentions or political programmes developed by parties or governments.
Political Party
An association of people who share common values and political beliefs and who seek political power in order to convert those values and beliefs into practice.
Populism
A political movement that appeals to people’s emotions and which tends to find supporters among sections of the community who feel they have been neglected by those in power.
Right Wing
Policies often associated with conservatism.
Short Money
Named after Ted Short. Funds given to opposition psrties to fund their parliamentary work. Amount is based in how many seats and votes each party won at the previous election.
Social Liberalism
Liberals who share many of the centrist social democratic views of the Labour Party.
Third Way
Developed by Anthony Giddens and Peter Mandelson. Proposed policies which lay somewhere between leftist socialism and rightist neo-liberalism.
Two-party System
A system in which two parties invariably dominate at elections and in government. Smaller parties often fail to make an impact in such a system.
