AP Comp Gov - Chapter 2
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| show | England, Scotland, and Wales
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| United Kingdom / Britain | show 🗑
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| unitary state | show 🗑
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| show | executive and legislaure not separated
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| devolution | show 🗑
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| gradualism | show 🗑
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| 1066 - invasion of Normas | show 🗑
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| 1215 - Magna Carta | show 🗑
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| show | started forces that would depoliticize the church
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| show | established parliamentary supremacy; gives parliament "power of purse" ie fiscal power and a bill of rights
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| 1701 - Act of Settlement | show 🗑
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| show | 1st among equals
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| show | cabinet is publically united; don't walk out of cabinet meeting bad mouth prime minister
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| parliamentary democracy | show 🗑
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| show | legal system based on local customs and precendent rather than formal legal codes
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| British Common Law | show 🗑
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| show | summit of judicial system; becomes independent UK Supreme Court in 2009
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| show | not single document; developed over 100s of years; consists of: 1 acts of parliament; 2 common law; 3 tradition (convention)
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| show | UK was world's greatest empire in 1800s
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| interventionist state | show 🗑
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| nationalizing | show 🗑
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| National Health Service (NHS) | show 🗑
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| show | few invasions; not huge country, makes for stability; island = strong navy
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| show | 1951-63; for state-centered solutions; consevatives joined with labour so they can get back in power
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| trans unions congress | show 🗑
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| show | union of management
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| show | falling economic conditions created strikes; cost Labour the next election
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| Thatcherism | show 🗑
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| enterprise culture | show 🗑
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| show | downfall of thatcher; on individual to supplement existing income tax
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| show | characterized by john major; pursued popular issues like abandoning poll tax and appointing more women to cabinet posts
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| show | JM conditional agreement to EEC (later, EU); faced strong domestic opposition
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| New Labour | show 🗑
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| show | alternative to Thatcherism and old Labour social welcare
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| show | Gordon Brown - understanding that Brown was successor to Blair
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| show | successful negotiations for northern ireland between protestants and catholics
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| Blair Doctrine | show 🗑
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| show | adopting european convention on human rights in 2000
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| show | turned the law lords into a uk supreme court
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| freedom of information act | show 🗑
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| show | more home rule and elected assemblies in scotland, wales, norhtern ireland (w/ proportional representation ther)
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| euroskeptics | show 🗑
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| fusion of powers | show 🗑
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| show | highest court of appeal; was in House of Lords, but moved to independent supreme court in 2009
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| head of state | show 🗑
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| show | PM and ministers, each heads a major government bureaucracy
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| collective cabinet | show 🗑
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| role of PM | show 🗑
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| party discipline | show 🗑
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| loyal opposition | show 🗑
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| shadow cabinet | show 🗑
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| show | members of parliament with no cabinet position
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| show | readied by government, introduced to commons
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| show | if majority supports, goes t ocommittee for detailed scrutiny
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| third reading | show 🗑
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| question time | show 🗑
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| party whip | show 🗑
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| vote of confidence | show 🗑
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| hereditary peers | show 🗑
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| show | majority of House of Lords now; nominated based on merit
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| show | whitewall; critical role in advice on and execution of gov. policies; party of exec branch; merit-based; DOESN'T MAKE - JUST ADMINISTERS POLICY
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| new public management | show 🗑
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| QUANGOs | show 🗑
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| linkage institutions | show 🗑
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| whigs | show 🗑
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| tories | show 🗑
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| labour party | show 🗑
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| show | largest leftist party; alliance of trade unions and socialist groups; now neoliberal reforms with traditional emphasis on social welfare programs
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| Clause 4 | show 🗑
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| conservative party | show 🗑
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| liberal democratic party | show 🗑
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