The making of the modern British state.
Political economy & development.
Governance & policy-making.
Representation & participation.
British Politics in transition.
100
The official name of the UK.
What is The United Kingdom of Great Britain & North Ireland?
100
This service provides comprehensive and universal medical care, and has long been championed as the jewel in the crown of the welfare stare in Britain.
What is the National Health Service
100
There is no formal unified version of this text and is made up of Parliamentary law, common law, convention, and authoritative interpretations.
What is the British Constitution?
100
A backbencher
Who is a person the does not hold a governmental office in parliament and is not a front row spokesperson?
100
Produced a decisive vote to preserve the UK's current system for electing MP's, but managed to upset the apple cart anyway and put political leaders such as Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg in a negative light.
What did the May 2011 referendum on voting do?
200
the admin structure of the UK.
what is unitary state with fusion of powers?
200
This was the Thatcherite point of view for monetary system in the UK. Said "Not only was active government intervention considered unnecessary; it was seen as undesirable and destabilizing.
What is Monetarism
200
A system of government in which most executive power is held by a cabinet, headed by a prime minister
What is a cabinet government?
200
None of the parties received the 326 votes needed for an overall majority. Therefore this lead to a hung parliament.
What happened in the 2010 election?
200
Author of "The Satanic Verses" whose knighting by the Queen was widely held to be an affront to the Muslim community in Britain.
Who is Salman Rushdie?
300
In an election where no single party gets a majority in the commons.
What is a Hung Parliament?
300
this part of the minority have become the most unequaled
What is young men in minorities
300
The doctrine that gives the legislature full power to create and overturn laws and allows no judicial review. This power was severely limited by U.K. joining the European Union in 1973.
What is parliamentary sovereignty?
300
Nick Clegg
Who is the person who has been who has been Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Lord President of the Council since 2010?
300
Because of threats of weapons of mass destruction, Al Qaeda terrorism, and rogue states.
Why did Blair find it justifiable to support the US and the Bush administration in going to war in Iraq?
400
A set of public polices designed to provide for citizens' needs through direct or indirect provision of pensions, health care, unemployment insurance, and assistance to the poor.
What is Welfare State?
400
This is promoted by some social democratic and social liberal movements and was supported by Tony Blair.
What is the third way?
400
The idea that the cabinet members must support and vote for governmental decisions made by the cabinet even if they personally do not agree.
What is collective responsibility?
400
Wanted to change the system to proportional representation, where the number of seats allocated to parties in parliament would closely approximate the proportion of votes cast for a given party.
What What did the Liberal Democrats want to do about the FPTP voting system?
400
A political orientation carefully watched for more than ten years by the British government because it looked as if it had found a way to mould a new political orientation that combined sophisticated approach to competitiveness in the global economy with a pragmatic anti-ideological approach to governance, but it could never recover from the war in Iraq.
What is New Labour's third way?
500
After this prime minister became unpopular and was force to resign in 2007, this once close friend and finance prime minister took over after being selected by the Queen. (Two part question)
Who is Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
500
In the dimensions of child well-being UK ranks better than the US in all but this
What is Health and Safety
500
This prime minister served from 1979-1990 and worked to downplay the role of detractors in the cabinet while working to get more support from loyal cabinet members. Also known as the iron lady.
Who is Margret Thatcher?
500
The Commons is publicly elected. The party with the largest number of members in the Commons forms the government. They debate the big political issues of the day and proposals for new laws. It is one of the key places where government ministers, and the principal figures of the main political parties work. The House of Lords is the second chamber of the UK Parliament, it complements the work of the House of Commons. It makes laws, holds government to account and investigates policy issues. Its membership is mostly appointed and includes experts in many fields.
What is the differences between the Commons and the House of lords?
500
On July 5, 2005 four British suicide bombers, all Muslim, detonated a set of coordinated arracks on the london transport system during morning rush hour killing 56 people.
What is 7/7?
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