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how has the party system changed over time? |
-lipset and rokkan (1967) theorized that the national and industrial revolution created divisions in modern societies and parties -forced people to replace sub national identities to new national ones, and religious clashes, both created resentment -went from more closed and based on class to open and competitive |
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partisanship |
identification model: 2 concepts -identification: identify yourself by a group object -socialization: conform |
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alignment |
-aligning yourself with political party -sometimes determined by your class/influences |
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de alignment |
-when people break from their 'party' or class voting -the decoupling of voters from their long-term and habitualattachments to specific parties -helped open up the market for votes which makes sure the parties stay on their toes and competitive -1970s: prominent - implies an opening up of the electoral market tonew levels of competition -voters suseptable to election propaganda -Cognitive Mobilization -Class Secularization -Changing Party Performance -apartisanship |
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re alignment |
-refers to the process oftransition which party systems periodically undergo when new ties between social andpolitical structures are forged -after realigning there will be a clear party support, but it's different -breaks down party alignments, but doesn't replace them, because after comes alignment again -the chances of realignment rather depend onthe strategic responses of established parties |
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what role do political parties play in shaping these changes? |
-what stances they take on specific issues -propaganda -public vs private cleavages-which side they take -adaptation: adapting to please modern day voters |
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how is power understood? |
1) Politics as public decisions/power as capacity: have a capacity to act, certain people have it 2) Politics as power/power as a social and structural: politics itself is power, it’s structure in the social dynamic of power |
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tories |
hostile to catholic emancipation |
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whigs |
-party of freedom of conscience and religious toleration |
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centre periphert |
when there's a conflict bc a group of people who are loyal to their group are forced to be loyal to a bigger one (eg irish nationals to GB) |
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industrial revolution |
landed vs industrial interests owners vs workers |
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modern Conservative party |
capitalism |
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ideological predisposition |
think the state should intervene and help the poor |
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interest |
line of explanation for why tensions between public and private arise |
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socailization effects |
if you're together a lot, you'll start to imitate each other in values |
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the Establishment |
-those with power, powerful group that needs to protect their power in the democracy -author objects to -pejorative -always meant to rule, born into it -they influence gov with their values -protect their wealth |
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how does the establishment work to maintain power? |
-free markets: economic freedom -close with the media-they target the poor and align with the rich MPs -stealing public money -people prefer nationalization and socialism, but they're not represented -if the rich are taxed, they'll leave and take the jobs with them -keeping MPS in the dark on what they're voting for -cosy up to big businesses |
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politics before mattered, was a huge thing, now it's just about nuances |
the establishment |
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tories aka conservatives |
the establishment aka what you think it is donors are big City banks capitalism |
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Liberal Democrats party |
more of a protest or activist vote stemmed from the Labour party in the 1980s (socially liberal) then in 2000's became aligned with the Conservative party |
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new labour |
tony blair's attempt to show that labour wasn't for the people as much as it was for the business so he'd get more money |
