Participation and Voting Behaviour
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| show | How we are governed and by whom, the ways in which big decisions are taken concerning public affairs etc. including whether we are a democracy, dictatorship or whether we have tyranny or equality
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| show | The ability to get things done, whether through force or coercion. The ability to reward or punish, like the Government can jail people who break the law
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| show | The ability to Government to direct their citizens towards a goal because the majority of people accept their right to rule. Implies that force will not have to be used, 'power cloaked in righfullness', like the Government's mandate to rule
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| show | Literally 'people power', the people govern. In the UK we have a representative democracy, because we elect representatives, another form is representative democracy as used in Ancient Greece, would be infeasible now
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| Define 'Equality' | show 🗑
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| Pluralism | show 🗑
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| show | Society should be governed by a small group of elite (superior) people
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| Define 'Electorate' | show 🗑
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| show | A lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern for political matters, apathetic voters usually abstain from voting, because they fail to see the point or benefit
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| Define 'Alienation' | show 🗑
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| show | - Participation (referenda since 1997, pressure groups and single issue parties, turnout increase)
- Our system is democratic (free and fair elections (?), open opposition, free press, checks and balances, protection of civil liberties)
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| Reasons why Britain is not a democracy (one set for KR, one for SF) | show 🗑
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| show | Voting, pressure groups, writing to MP, joining a party, standing as an MP, canvassing, political discussion
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| Why is there less participation today? | show 🗑
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| Give some examples of declining participation | show 🗑
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| All time low of participation in a General Election | show 🗑
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| General Election turnout from 1997 onwards | show 🗑
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| What did the Parry et al. 1992 survey show? | show 🗑
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| Reasons why participation does not matter | show 🗑
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| show | - We need to hold MPs to account, have ultimate authority
- Sign of a good citizen
- grassroots opinion
- moderate majority
- duty to
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| Explain the Social Structure Model | show 🗑
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| Explain the Party Identification Model | show 🗑
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| show | People believe what they read in the press, like Murdoch press Conservative bias. TV and radio coverage responds to agenda set by the press. Has ruined several careers, like bacon sandwich gate
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| show | People will look back at what has happened recently, and think forward to what the parties are promising and make an informed decision. I.e Conservative Party campaign 2015 "long term economic plan"
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| Explain the Voting Context Model | show 🗑
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| show | Includes the dominant ideology, rational choice, and voting context models (media coverage, prospective and retrospective models, image of the leader, and protest voting/electoral volatility)
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| show | Includes the social structure and party identification model (class, ethnicity, gender, age, party, partisan alignment)
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| Give some examples of issue voting | show 🗑
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| Approximately how many people live in a constituency? | show 🗑
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| When were major constituency boundary changes brought in? | show 🗑
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| show | 2015 General Election C1- 41% Conservative, 29% Labour DE- 41% Labour, 26% Conservative
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| Give General Elections as evidence of class dealignment | show 🗑
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| Give figures for Partisan Alignment | show 🗑
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| show | 2015- 38% men voted conservative, 37% of women
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| show | 2015- 27% Conservative vote 18-25 y/o increases to 47% among the 65+
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| show | 2015- Labour vote share among minorities is 65% compared to 28% from white British - 6% of Black Africans, compared to 22% of Indian origin
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| show | North-South divide. 31% of Northern voters voted Conservative, 12 points behind the rest of the UK
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| Why was Cameron chosen as Conservative party leader in 2006? | show 🗑
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| Arguments that the media plays a big role | show 🗑
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| Arguments that the media do not play a big role | show 🗑
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| Why do we have elections? | show 🗑
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