Majoritarianism
A state in which the central government is the only source of power.
What is a unitary system?
The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Who is Theresa May?
The largest parties in the United Kingdom.
What are the Conservative and Labour parties?
The winning side of the Brexit referendum.
What is Leave?
The half of parliament that has functionally no powers other than delaying bills.
What is the House of Lords?
The number of parties typical of a majoritarian system?
The current leader of the Labour Party.
Who is Jeremy Corban?
The party which tends to dominate elections in the northern region of Britain.
What is the Scottish National party?
The constitutive countries of the UK that voted to remain in the EU.
What are Scotland and Northern Ireland?
The trait of majoritarianism that was broken after the 2010 general election.
What are bare-majority, one party cabinets?
An institution in governments with written constitutions that would be absent in a perfect majoritarian system?
What are supreme courts (judicial review)?
The current First Minister of Scotland.
Who is Nicola Sturgeon?
The two parties that formed a coalition government after the 2010 general election.
What are the Conservative party and the Liberal-Democratic party?
The part of the Brexit plan that causes the most division between Theresa May and the DUP.
What is the Irish Backstop?
The institution that has some degree of judicial power of parliament while the UK remains in the EU?
What is the European Court of Justice?
The electoral system commonly used in Majoritarian systems.
What are plurality or first-past-the-post systems?
The two Labour Prime Ministers before David Cameron?
Who are Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
The party from Northern Ireland that is currently supporting Theresa May's minority government?
What is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)?
The article of the Treaty of Lisbon that outlines rules for leaving the European Union.
What is article 50?
The movement of policy competencies from the central government to lower levels of governance.
What is devolution?
A form of interest-group organization characterized by intense competition, many interest groups, and no formal meetings between different actors.
What is interest group pluralism?
Who was the last leader before Jeremy Corban in the Labour Party to lose a vote of no confidence by members of parliament?
Who is Neil Kinnock?
The one constituency in which the Green party wins a seat.
Where is Brighton Pavilion?
Brexit
What does Brexit mean?
One implication for the changing number of issues and parties in UK politics?
What is multi-dimensional competition?