Definitions
This term is used to describe the branch of government responsible for determining the constitutionality of laws and acts.
What is constitutional court?
This term refers to a democratic system where a president is directly elected by the people and holds the majority of the executive power.
What is a presidential system?
This term defines the electoral system of the UK.
What is a plurality based parliamentary system?
This is the predominant religion in the UK, as 60% of the population in the UK is a believer in this religion.
What is Christian?
This term applies when, for example, the UK has chosen to give more power to the Scottish and Welsh to rule themselves.
What is devolution?
This term applies when a legislature votes on the issue of whether its members continue to support the current prime minister.
What is a vote of confidence?
This system occurs where a directly elected president and an indirectly elected prime minister share power.
What is a semi-presidential system?
This term refers to the confederation of the UK's largest trade unions.
What is the Trades Union Congress?
This is the predominant ethnic group in the UK, standing at 87%.
What is white?
This term is used to define the relationship between the national and local government in the UK.
What is unitary system?
This term applies to the promotion of equality.
What is civil rights?
A weakness of this system is that the public does not directly select its prime minister, while a strength is that the prime minister has the ability to get legislation passed fairly easily.
What is a parliamentary system?
List the five political parties of the UK that have been discussed in class.
What are the UKIP, Labour, Conservative, SNP, and LD Parties?
QUANGOS stands for this:
What is quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organizations?
This term refers to a role that symbolizes and represents the people, both nationally and internationally, embodying and articulating the goals of the regime.
What is head of state?
This term applies to the promotion of freedom.
What is civil liberties?
This electoral system occurs when each constituency has only one representative. The representative for the constituency may have been selected in a plurality or majority system.
What is SMD (single-member district)?
The House of Lords has four different types of peers within it. List three of them.
What are a life peer, a hereditary peer, a law lord, and the top members of the Church of England?
This term refers to the group in England that caused violent bombings during The Troubles period.
What is the Irish Revolutionary Army (IRA)?
This term is used to describe what made democracies secular, rational, materialistic, technological, bureaucratic, and concerned more with individual freedom than collective equality.
What is modern?
This term is used by the textbook to describe regimes whose governments used to fall under the category of "Second World."
What are communist and post communist regimes?
In this system, more than one legislative seat is contested in each district in a manner where voters cast their ballots for a party rather than a candidate.
What is proportional representation (PR)?
Put these prime ministers in chronological order: Gordon Brown, Teresa May, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Tony Blair, and Boris Johnson.
What is Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Teresa May, and Boris Johnson?
The UK's labor force has 15% of this occupation working in this sector.
What is industry?
This term helps explain the political-economic system of countries like the United Kingdom and the United States?
What is liberal?