Statistics for Edexcel Politics 1. Democracy and Political Parties

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Question or Term	Answer	% Correct
A pressure group with direct links to decision makers at one or multiple levels	Insider Group	100%
The position of the Green Party on the political spectrum	Left	100%
A 1215 charter made between King John and rebel barons guaranteeing amongst other things (for the church, nobility, and freemen) the freedom of the Church for the Crown, fair trial by a trained judge, and no arbitrary taxation without consent	Magna Carta	100%
A statement of policy intentions to be followed by party candidates	Manifesto	100%
Policies often associated with conservatism, law and order, individualism, limited state control, patriotism, and nationalism	Right Wing	100%
A usually democratic system in which only two parties win a vast majority of votes and seats and have a realistic chance of being able to form a government	Two-party system	100%
A group the aim of which is to influence policy making without actually looking to take government power	Pressure Group	71%
The age at which people can vote in Scottish Parliamentary Elections	16	67%
A 1998 act that brought into effect the Council of Europe's 1953 European Convention on Human Rights, thereby replacing the existing patchwork of statute and common law rights	Human Rights Act	67%
An independent pressure group founded in 1934 that campaigns for civil liberties such as its current campaign as of April 2019 opposing police use of facial recognition	Liberty	67%
A system in which the people elect a person or group to represent their interests and make decisions on their behalf	Representative Democracy	67%
The position of the Democratic Unionist Party on the political spectrum	Right	67%
The Labour Party during the period between the 1990's and the present/up until Corbyn's party premiership, with a more centrist position	New Labour	60%
A political movement, often represented by a party, that appeals to popular emotion, tending to find support among those sections of the community that feel unrepresented by conventional politics and politicians	Populism	60%
An MP whose role it is to maintain party discipline	Whip	57%
A recognised sovereign country or territory	A State	50%
The position of Plaid Cymru on the political spectrum	Centre-left	50%
A set of ideas that holds in principle that the authority of a government is derived from and limited by a codified body of fundamental law	Constitutionalism	50%
An activity often used by pressure groups so as to influence a legislator on a particular cause or interest	Lobbying	50%
Those liberals who came to prominence after the decline of classical liberalism in the late 19th century who tolerate the expansion of the role of the state into social justice, welfare provision, and equality of opportunity	Modern Liberals	50%
The Labour Party during the period between its early days and the 1990's	Old Labour	50%
A usually undemocratic system in which only one party is allowed to operate	One-party System	50%
A pressure group with no direct links to decision makers	Outsider Group	50%
Where members of the representative body are as a microcosm of society (demographically)	Social Representation	50%
Comprises the Prime Minister, Cabinet, junior ministers, and political advisers	UK Government	50%
A 2000 act that created a public right of access to information held by public authorities though with certain exemptions	Freedom of Information Act	40%
A collection of political and impermanent individuals and bodies that administers a state	Government	40%
Law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent as opposed to statutes	Common Law	33%
That which develops new legislation, presents it to the legislature for approval, arranges for its implementation, and administers the state	Executive	33%
The authority of an elected government to carry out its manifesto commitments	Mandate	33%
The way in which parties are structured within a political system such as whether it is two-party or multiparty	Party System	33%
An organisation that can be either neutral or partisan, government or privately financed, the role of which is to undertake research into various aspects of public policy	Think Tank	33%
The position of Sinn Féin on the political spectrum	Centre-left	29%
A formal or loose though nonetheless distinct group within a political party whose views vary significantly from the main party policies	Party Faction	29%
The right to exercise power	Authority	25%
The position of the Scottish National Party on the political spectrum	Centre-left	25%
Where representatives represent both the whole constituency and its individual constituents' interests rather than following their own conscience	Constituency Representation	25%
A political system in which supreme power lies in a body of citizens	Democracy	25%
A moderate form of socialism that seeks to achieve its aims of mixing state control of production with some aspects of market capitalism by democratic means	Democratic Socialism	25%
A 2010 act that superseded over 116 separate acts, that outlaws discrimination by establishing formal equality	Equality Act	25%
What does the executive branch in the UK consist of?	Government	25%
A usually democratic system in which multiple parties compete for votes and power with governments nearly always formed through a coalition	Multiparty System	25%
The right of Parliament to create or end any law which no other body or person has the right to override	Parliamentary Sovereignty	25%
What does the legislative branch in the UK consist of?	Westminster Parliament	25%
An act that enfranchised all women aged 21 or over	1928 Representation of the People Act	20%
Charismatic, Legal-Rational, Traditional	Authority	20%
A 1689 bill that protected the rights and freedoms of Parliament against the monarch	Bill of Rights	20%
The growing tendency for democracy to be carried out online in the form of e-petitions and online campaigns	Digital Democracy	20%
Policies that conform to socialist principles, equality, state control and ownership, elimination of privilege, and collectivism	Left Wing	20%
That charged with discussing, consenting to or rejecting laws or changes to laws, and exercising control over the executive	Legislature	20%
The product of having the consent of, and being accountable to the people	Democratic Legitimacy	17%
A form of political sovereignty in which the people ultimately make the decisions as during elections or referendums	Popular Sovereignty	17%
Ultimate power that cannot be overruled	Sovereignty	17%
A coherent set of certain fixed and well established ideas that propose specific changes in society and which imply some kind of vision of what kind of society is desirable	Ideology	14%
An act that expanded the franchise to 20% of men aged 21 or over	1832 Great Reform Act	0%
An act that expanded the franchise to 35% of men aged 21 or over	1867 Reform Act	0%
An act that introduced secret ballots for local and parliamentary elections	1872 Ballot Act	0%
An act that standardised election expenditure and criminalised bribery	1883 Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act	0%
An act that equalised the County and Borough franchise and expanded the franchise to 60% of men aged 21 or over	1884 Reform Act	0%
An act that introduced equally populated constituencies	1885 Redistribution of Seats Act	0%
An act that enfranchised all men aged 21 or over and all women aged 30 or over who (or whose husband) resided in or owned property in the constituency with a ratable value of £5.00 or more	1918 Representation of the People Act	0%
An act that enfranchised all people aged 18 to 21	1969 Representation of the People Act	0%
Where political parties and interest groups occupy extreme positions resulting in fundamental differences and an unwillingness to compromise, each side seeking to undermine the other	Adversary Politics	0%
A process undertaken by political parties of converting policies, demands, and ideas into practical policy programmes for government, usually involving compromise and the elimination of contradictions	Aggregation	0%
The practice of masking the founders and sponsors of a pressure group to make it appear that it is a grass roots movement	Astroturfing	0%
The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom	Authoritarianism	0%
That principal form of representation demonstrated by a promotional group	Causal Representation	0%
Where representatives represent principles and causes in the belief that they will benefit everyone, such as environmentalism, animal rights, etc.	Causal Representation	0%
Authority by lieu of the acclaim of the people to be governed by a particular leader	Charismatic Authority	0%
Deliberate and premeditated breaking of the law so as to encourage arrest to make a political statement	Civil Disobedience	0%
The rights and freedoms of citizens which protect them from unfair and arbitrary treatment by the state, as well as those freedoms guaranteed by the state and constitution	Civil Liberties	0%
All the various parties, pressure groups, religions, charities, etc. to which citizens belong and in which they may be or become active which acts as a counterbalance to governmental power	Civil Society	0%
The idea of a limited state confined to protecting individual freedoms and maintaining the security of the state	Classical Liberalism	0%
Those citizen's responsibilities enshrined in and enforceable by law such as paying taxes	Clear Citizen's Responsibilities	0%
The use of, or threat of physical force such as execution, torture, terror, imprisonment of opponents, etc.	Coercive Power	0%
Rights and liberties held by a group or community such as the right of religions to practice their beliefs (e.g. the right of the Roman Catholic Church not to ordain women)	Collective Rights	0%
The situation that arises because of the difficulty in accommodating the competing and often incompatible goals of different groups and/or individuals	Conflict	0%
Where there is widespread agreement between parties and interest groups on how the country should be governed with only differences on aims, ideas, policies, and procedures	Consensus Politics	0%
Acquiring popular and private opinion in the drafting and implementation of policy through consultation of individuals, groups, businesses, etc.	Consultative Democracy	0%
What does the judicial branch in the UK consist of?	Courts and Judges	0%
A position within a representative democracy in which the representative is considered an agent of, and directly accountable to their constituents	Delegate Theory	0%
A system in which political decisions are the product of fair and reasonable discussion among citizens such as in a jury	Deliberative Democracy	0%
A belief that high welfare benefits encourage dependence on those benefits and thus disincentivise work	Dependency Culture	0%
A system in which people give their views and make decisions directly themselves such as during a referendum	Direct Democracy	0%
Those citizen's responsibilities that though they may be enforceable are disputed such as the responsibility to serve in the armed forces when the country is under attack or to vote in elections and referendums	Disputed Citizen's Responsibilities	0%
The mandate of a doctor to do whatever is necessary while the patient is in no position to grand authority, sometimes claimed by a government allowing it to act outside of its mandate during emergencies	Doctor's Mandate	0%
A usually democratic system in which parties operate freely but only one party has a realistic chance of being able to form a government	Dominant Party System	0%
The quality of being characterised by vigorous activity and progress	Dynamism	0%
The power and/or influence of those whose wealth and/or business accounts for a significant amount of employment or income	Economic Power	0%
A society or political system in which power is concentrated in the hands of a few people and organisations	Elitism	0%
A state that supports wealth production but does not generally seek to produce wealth itself	Enabling State	0%
The three branches of Government	Executive, Judicial, Legislative	0%
The aspects of equality or equal treatment of different sections of society as established by law	Formal Equality	0%
That principal form of representation demonstrated by a sectional group	Functional Representation	0%
Where representatives represent the views of a particular group such as trade unions, or the elderly, as well as their constituents	Functional Representation	0%
Authority, Legitimacy, Power, Sovereignty	Governance	0%
Where the government has a duty to act on behalf of the whole community/nation, not just on its own party supporters	Government Representation	0%
Where political decision making involves hearing and mediating between the competing demands of different groups	Group Politics	0%
Those insider groups that conciously use the media for their own ends	High Profile	0%
The broad category of rights - not necessarily guaranteed - that encompass most civil liberties as well as more fundamental principles such as access to education and the right to work	Human Rights	0%
A modern phenomenon of rapid growth in the number of pressure groups making it difficult for governments to satisfy their competing demands	Hyperpluralism	0%
Rights and liberties held by individuals such as freedom of expression and the right to privacy	Individual Rights	0%
Power exercised through the ability to affect government and policy but not to enforce it	Influence	0%
Any group that seeks to act to achieve some improvement in its own circumstances	Interest	0%
A party representing a particular cause such as the Green Party representing environmentalism	Issue Party	0%
That politically neutral body in the UK which deals with criminal matters and political matters (particularly disputed over the meaning of laws or the actions of government)	Judiciary	0%
Authority by lieu of any rational way of granting said authority, used in democracies to mean 'Elective Authority'	Legal-Rational Authority	0%
The ultimate source of all laws and of all legal power and authority	Legal Sovereignty	0%
Consent, Force, Tradition	Legitimacy	0%
Legitimacy by lieu of having the sanction of the people through participation in and support of the political process	Legitimacy by Consent	0%
Legitimacy by lieu of the ability to maintain peace and order (might is right)	Legitimacy by Force	0%
Legitimacy by lieu of its existence for a long period of time such as is the case for the City of London	Legitimacy by Tradition	0%
A democratic system in which rights and equality are guaranteed and promoted	Liberal Democracy	0%
What are the two types of peers in the House of Lords?	Lords Spiritual, and Lords Temporal	0%
Those insider groups that act behind the scenes	Low Profile	0%
Broad scale politics at the national or international level	Macropolitics	0%
Political power exercised through the use of persuasion and incentives	Manipulative Political Power	0%
Narrow scale politics such as at the family or workplace level	Micropolitics	0%
Where representatives are expected to represent the national interest and their constituency, finding resolutions where there is conflict as best they can	National Interest Representation	0%
A conservative movement popular in the 1980's (Reagan and Thatcher(ism)) rejecting some of the ideas of traditional conservatism in favour of authoritarianism, neo-conservatism, and economic neo-liberalism	New Right	0%
The idea that Conservative policies should promote social cohesion and reduce social conflict between the classes as popularised by Benjamin Disraeli	One Nation Conservatism	0%
Political power exercised through Cabinet and Parliament	Open Political Power	0%
A system of governance in which the executive derives legitimacy from, and is held accountable to the legislature, with the head of state and head of government being different people	Parliamentary Democracy	0%
The engagement of constituents in a political system	Participation	0%
An association/organisation of people sharing the same political beliefs that contests elections and seeks to form or take part in a government	Party	0%
Where representatives represent their parties policies as outlined in its manifesto, assuming they are not an independent	Party Representation	0%
An aggregate of various pressure groups bound by a common cause such as the Trade Union Congress (TUC) amalgamating various trade unions	Peak Group	0%
A set of intentions or a political programme developed by parties or by government reflecting the political stance of said parties and governments	Policy	0%
A factor that may grant an individual or entity influence in political or policy matters such as wealth, a large and/or active membership, a popular interest etc.	Political Capital	0%
Manipulative, Open, Secretive	Political Power	0%
The use of persuasion, issuance of rewards and sanctions, appointing of ministers, whipping of MP's, etc.	Political Power	0%
The location of de facto legal power such as is held in a democracy by the people during elections and the government between elections	Political Sovereignty	0%
An activity directed towards managing or resolving conflicts of interest between people and/or groups usually in a peaceful fashion	Politics	0%
Coercive, Influence, Political	Power	0%
Those insider groups that are reliant of government support such as third world charities	Prisoner Groups	0%
The two types of pressure group	Promotional and Sectional	0%
A group that pursues a particular cause by mass activism rather than through mass membership	Promotional Group	0%
The statistical and sociological study of elections and trends in voting	Psephology	0%
The practice of representatives in taking up the case of an individual constituent who feels they have suffered an injustice, usually at the hand of the government or an agency of the state	Redress of Grievances	0%
Those rights and liberties enjoyed by citizens through the fact that there are no laws or statutes prohibiting them	Residual Rights and Liberties	0%
The position of the UK Independence Party on the political spectrum	Right	0%
Political power exercised within closed doors negotiations among officials and outside parties	Secretive Political Power	0%
A group that pursues a particular cause through a membership, usually representing an interest	Sectional Group	0%
A campaign or corresponding group that focuses on one particular narrow issue such as opposing the third runway at Heathrow	Single Issue Campaign	0%
The promotion of social justice and equality within a capitalist and liberal democratic system	Social Democracy	0%
A movement such as the Occupy Movement that used demonstrations and civil disobedience in support of a cause	Social Movement	0%
The power and/or influence over how people live and think	Social Power	0%
Legal, Political, Popular	Sovereignty	0%
The effect whereby electors splitting their votes between similar candidates causes the opponent of both/all of those parties to win	Spoiler Effect	0%
A written law passed by a legislative body	Statute	0%
Members of the 'Women's Social and Political Union' who campaigned for female suffrage through the use of civil disobedience, militant activity, and direct action	Suffragettes	0%
Those advocating for the extension of suffrage to women particularly members of the 'National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies'	Suffragists	0%
A permanent collection of institutions that administers a territory	The State	0%
Comprises the armed forces and intelligence, law enforcement and the courts, bureaucracy and civil service, state institutions (BBC, NHS etc.), local authorities and devolved administrations, etc.	The State	0%
A political philosophy which proposed policies between socialism and neo-liberalism	Third Way	0%
A usually democratic system in which there are usually two dominant parties which cannot win a majority thus requiring a coalition with a smaller but significant and often disproportionately powerful third party	Three-party System	0%
Authority by lieu of its existence for a long period of time suggesting assumed consent as the people have allowed for its continued existence	Traditional Authority	0%
A position within a representative democracy in which the representative while having a duty to their constituents must act on conscience, the national interest, and a presumed superior education and knowledge	Trust Theory	0%
A pressure group formed in 2007 through the merger of two former groups that promotes the broad aims of codification of a British constitution and proportional representation amongst other things in addition to the protection of civil liberties such as by abolishing 28 days detention without charge	Unlock Democracy	0%
A system in which amongst other things the executive is formed from members within the legislature rather than being separate from it as in the United States of America	Westminster System	0%