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| members of a parliament who are not in the government or shadow cabinet |
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| Collective Responsibility |
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| the doctrine that all cabinet members must agree with all decisions |
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| cross-party British support for the welfare state that lasted until the late 1970s |
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| arrangements through which government, business, and labor leaders cooperatively set microeconomic and macroeconomic policy, normally outside of the regular electoral legislative process. |
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| the process of decentralizing power from national governments that stops short of federalism |
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| People opposed to expansion of the EU's power |
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| electoral system based on single-member districts in which the candidate who receives the most votes wins |
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| the belief that change should occur slowly or incrementally |
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| established the king was not the absolute monarch and forced to rule in parliament with consent of the nobility before imposing any money laws |
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| another term for a party's platfrom in an election campaign |
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| philosophies or attitudes that stress the importance of extending the power or support for a nation; government takeover of private business |
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| the selling off of state-owned companies |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| Electoral system in which parties receive a number of seats in parliament proportionate to their share of the vote |
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| the official leadership of the opposition party that "shadoes" the cabinet |
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| a term used to describe the new and more central left-wing parties of the 1990s, most notably Britain's "New Labor" |
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| statements to MPs that they must vote according to the paty's wishes |
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| a government statement that outlines proposed legislation; the last stage before the submission of a formal bill |
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| British prime minister since 1997 and architect of "New Labour" |
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| Conservative and first woman prime minister of great Britain, 1979-1990 |
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| published in the 1940s; set the stage for the British welfare |
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| Britain's most important right-or-center party, in power more often than not for two centuries |
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| a practical peace agrement reached by the major parties in Nothern Ireland with the British and Irish governments on, not surprisingly, Good Friday 1998 |
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| Law passed in 1832 that expanded the suffrage; widely seen as a key step toward democracy in Britain |
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| the all-important lower house of the British Parliament |
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| the weaker upper house of the British Parliament, slated for reform or abolition |
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| the leading left-wing party in Britain, in power since 1997 |
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| the number-three party and in some ways the most radical |
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| created the EU and EMU; signed in 1992 |
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| part of the Liberal Democrat party |
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| informal name for Britain's Conservative Party |
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