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Britain Unit Vocab:

Conservative Party

Crown

Downing Street

First-past-the-post

Liberal Democrats

Magna Carta

Mixed economy

Multiparty system

SNP

Prime minister

Quango

Unwritten constitution

Vote of confidence

Devolution

United Kingdom

Collective responsibility

Collectivist consensus

Corporatism

Euroskeptic

Gradualism

Nationalization

Privatization

Shadow cabinet

Third way

Thatcherism

Good Friday agreement

House of Commons

House of Lords

Confederation of British Industry

Trade Unions Council

Backbenchers

Supreme Court

Welfare State

Brexit – Hard/Soft

Blair, Tony Brexit Cabinet Cameron, David Clegg, Nick

Collective Responsibility

Collectivist Consensus

Common Law Commonwealth Conservatives

(Tories) Crown Farage, Nigel Good Friday

Agreement

Hung Parliament Labour Party

(Labour)

Liberals (Whigs) Majoritarian

Parliament Prime Minister Quangos COALITION Scottish National

Party (SNP) Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Vote of No Confidence (Yes, again)

Austerity**

Essential Questions

After reading and reviewing the material in this chapter the student should be able to answer the following:

⮚ What are the characteristics of an advanced democracy?

⮚ Why is Great Britain classified as an advanced democracy?

⮚ What is the role played by civic culture in the functioning of politics and government in the present and recent past in the United Kingdom?

⮚ Why are Liberal Democrats the most enthusiastic proponents of proportional voting in the UK? Why did the referendum on proportional voting fail?

⮚ What are the major types of interest groups in the U.K. and how are their roles different from those of interest groups in the United States?

⮚ What are the roles played by parties in the House of Commons?

⮚ What is the role of the media in British government and politics?

⮚ What is David Cameron’s ‘Big Society”? What distinguishes this approach from Blair’s ‘Third Way” or Thatcherism?

⮚ How has coalition government affected Britain’s parliamentary system?

⮚ How has the British political system changed over the last 30 years, and how has it adapted to the challenges of the 21st century?

⮚ What challenges does the European Union pose to British sovereignty? How does Brexit change this dynamic?