POLS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Quasi, Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy
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Vocabulary
Essay
Britain France
Electoral
System
Single-member district/first-past-
the-post
•
PM is the party leader and then if
that party gets a majority they
become PM
•
Single-member district
and PR
•
Runoff!You must get
a majority
•
National Assembly:
First round, 12.5%.
Second round,
majority wins most
seats in government
•
Presidential: First
round, top two
candidates progress.
Second round,
majority
•
Senate: Indirect
elections
•
Executive PM is head of government
•
Queen is head of state
•
Has no real political power; just a
figurehead
•
Downing Street is where the PM
works
•
Semi-presidential
•
President is head of
state but has the most
power and sets the
agenda
•
PM aka Premier is
head of government
but typically has less
power than president
•
Legislature House of Lords (English nobility
inherited) can’t actually oppose
Parliament or House of
Commons
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by PM from House of
Commons
•
Whitehall is the name for
departments headed by cabinet
members and advised by the civil
services
•
Westminster is made up of
Downing Street, Whitehall, and
the House of Lords and
Commons
•
National Assembly:
Lower house in
legislature where most
bills are introduced
•
Senate: Upper house
with much less power
(though more than
House of Lords). Can
block legislation but
not really change
anything
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by
President from
National Assembly
•
Judiciary Supreme Court Created in 2009
•
Consists of president and 11
judges appointed by a panel of
lawyers
•
Final court of appeal but powers
much more limited than US
Supreme Court
•
Can nullify government actions
but only if they do not exceed
powers of an Act of Parliament
and they cannot declare Acts of
Parliament unconstitutional
•
No tradition of judicial
review
•
The sovereignty of
Parliament has meant
that the legislature has
last word
•
The Constitutional
Council was created a
safeguard
•
President and
presidents od National
Assembly and Senate
appoint 3
representatives each to
serve for 9 year non-
renewable terms
•
Often legislation is
approved by the
council before it is
even presented
•
The Council of State is
also around and can
provide recourse to
individuals who have
claims against the
administration
•
Party System Multi-party system but SMD
makes it appear as a 2-party
system (Duverger’s Law) with
strong third party
•Multiparty
•
Second round of
presidential elections
are between two main
parties
•
Main Parties Conservative: Right
•
Labor: Center Left
•
Liberal Democrats: Left
•
Communists: Far left
and have decreased
drastically in power
•
Socialists: Current
party in power
•
UDF: Center right
party
•
UMP: Party of Nicolas
Sarkozy that is directly
descended from de
Gualle
•
National Front (FN):
Far right party led by
Marine Le Pen and
created by Jean-Marie
Le Pen
•
Effective #
Parties
~2.5-3.5
•~5.7
•
Unitary/Federal Unitary but there has been some
devolution of power to Scotland
(Blair’s program included this)
•
Devolution: Power handed down
from central governments to
other Parliaments in UK; N.
Ireland and Scotland
•
Unitary: Very Highly
centralized
•
More intense than in
Britain
•
Central government
has control over
departments, regions,
and communes
•
Interest Group
System
Pluralist Interest Group System
•
Many interest groups that lobby
the government
•
Neocorporatism
•
Government doesn’t
officially recognize it
as corporatism
•
System of interest
group representation,
under which particular
association,
representing particular
interests, have
privileged status to
speak for their group
•
Seen in France, where
some interest groups
have a privileged seat
when it comes to their
known politics
•
FNSA; Farmer
association
•
Voting Patterns There is not much indicator
within gender, family, or
education
•
Class used to be most important
but now only 40% consistently
vote along class lines
•
Religion is divisive
•
Class is a poor
predictor
•
Family affects voting
•
Abstention from
voting in elections is
common; presidential
elections have the
highest voter turnout
•
Major Leaders Tony Blair: PM til 2007 from
Labor party. Made the party
more centrist from far left.
Supported Iraq War which led
voters to dislike him
•
David Cameron: Conservative
PM after Blair for coalition
government with Liberal Dems
•
Jeremy Corbyn: Current Labor
PM as of Sept 12. Won in
landslide election within party.
Considered furthest left in
Parliament.
•
Francois Hollande:
Current Socialist
President. He is very
unpopular right now
and will probably not
win next election
•
Nicolas Sarkozy:
Previous president of
the UMP party. Wants
to run for president
again in the next
election
•
Jean-Marie Le Pen: FN
president
•
Marine Le Pen:
Current FN leader,
running for president
next election
•
Charles de Gualle:
Creator of 5th Republic
and first president
1958
•
Civil Service Prestigious job because they are
part of Whitehall when they
advise cabinet members
•
Are in charge of counseling the
government of the day and
maintaining integrity of
government
•
Sometimes they leak official
documents in order to stop them
from being passed if they think
they’re unethical
•
Top civil servants are
part of the grands
corps most of whom
are recruited from les
grandes ecoles such as
ENA
•
Immigration
Race relations act of
1965
a
Policies that acknowledged
difference in race, and
created institutional
appeals to racial
discrimination
"
Equal opportunity
"
Multicultural approach/ race-
relations approach
○
Growing pressure to asset
limits of multiculturalism
"
Response to urban riots and
US 9/11; London attacks in
2005
"
Initiation of a citizenship
test (2005) and language
requirements for
citizenship
"
More recently,
○
Schain emphasizes how
integration policies were the
product of political compromise
and consensus between the two
parties
○
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Vocabulary
Essay
Britain France
Electoral
System
Single-member district/first-past-
the-post
•
PM is the party leader and then if
that party gets a majority they
become PM
•
Single-member district
and PR
•
Runoff!You must get
a majority
•
National Assembly:
First round, 12.5%.
Second round,
majority wins most
seats in government
•
Presidential: First
round, top two
candidates progress.
Second round,
majority
•
Senate: Indirect
elections
•
Executive PM is head of government
•
Queen is head of state
•
Has no real political power; just a
figurehead
•
Downing Street is where the PM
works
•
Semi-presidential
•
President is head of
state but has the most
power and sets the
agenda
•
PM aka Premier is
head of government
but typically has less
power than president
•
Legislature House of Lords (English nobility
inherited) can’t actually oppose
Parliament or House of
Commons
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by PM from House of
Commons
•
Whitehall is the name for
departments headed by cabinet
members and advised by the civil
services
•
Westminster is made up of
Downing Street, Whitehall, and
the House of Lords and
Commons
•
National Assembly:
Lower house in
legislature where most
bills are introduced
•
Senate: Upper house
with much less power
(though more than
House of Lords). Can
block legislation but
not really change
anything
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by
President from
National Assembly
•
Judiciary Supreme Court Created in 2009
•
Consists of president and 11
judges appointed by a panel of
lawyers
•
Final court of appeal but powers
much more limited than US
Supreme Court
•
Can nullify government actions
but only if they do not exceed
powers of an Act of Parliament
and they cannot declare Acts of
Parliament unconstitutional
•
No tradition of judicial
review
•
The sovereignty of
Parliament has meant
that the legislature has
last word
•
The Constitutional
Council was created a
safeguard
•
President and
presidents od National
Assembly and Senate
appoint 3
representatives each to
serve for 9 year non-
renewable terms
•
Often legislation is
approved by the
council before it is
even presented
•
The Council of State is
also around and can
provide recourse to
individuals who have
claims against the
administration
•
Party System Multi-party system but SMD
makes it appear as a 2-party
system (Duverger’s Law) with
strong third party
•Multiparty
•
Second round of
presidential elections
are between two main
parties
•
Main Parties Conservative: Right
•
Labor: Center Left
•
Liberal Democrats: Left
•
Communists: Far left
and have decreased
drastically in power
•
Socialists: Current
party in power
•
UDF: Center right
party
•
UMP: Party of Nicolas
Sarkozy that is directly
descended from de
Gualle
•
National Front (FN):
Far right party led by
Marine Le Pen and
created by Jean-Marie
Le Pen
•
Effective #
Parties
~2.5-3.5
•~5.7
•
Unitary/Federal Unitary but there has been some
devolution of power to Scotland
(Blair’s program included this)
•
Devolution: Power handed down
from central governments to
other Parliaments in UK; N.
Ireland and Scotland
•
Unitary: Very Highly
centralized
•
More intense than in
Britain
•
Central government
has control over
departments, regions,
and communes
•
Interest Group
System
Pluralist Interest Group System
•
Many interest groups that lobby
the government
•
Neocorporatism
•
Government doesn’t
officially recognize it
as corporatism
•
System of interest
group representation,
under which particular
association,
representing particular
interests, have
privileged status to
speak for their group
•
Seen in France, where
some interest groups
have a privileged seat
when it comes to their
known politics
•
FNSA; Farmer
association
•
Voting Patterns There is not much indicator
within gender, family, or
education
•
Class used to be most important
but now only 40% consistently
vote along class lines
•
Religion is divisive
•
Class is a poor
predictor
•
Family affects voting
•
Abstention from
voting in elections is
common; presidential
elections have the
highest voter turnout
•
Major Leaders Tony Blair: PM til 2007 from
Labor party. Made the party
more centrist from far left.
Supported Iraq War which led
voters to dislike him
•
David Cameron: Conservative
PM after Blair for coalition
government with Liberal Dems
•
Jeremy Corbyn: Current Labor
PM as of Sept 12. Won in
landslide election within party.
Considered furthest left in
Parliament.
•
Francois Hollande:
Current Socialist
President. He is very
unpopular right now
and will probably not
win next election
•
Nicolas Sarkozy:
Previous president of
the UMP party. Wants
to run for president
again in the next
election
•
Jean-Marie Le Pen: FN
president
•
Marine Le Pen:
Current FN leader,
running for president
next election
•
Charles de Gualle:
Creator of 5th Republic
and first president
1958
•
Civil Service Prestigious job because they are
part of Whitehall when they
advise cabinet members
•
Are in charge of counseling the
government of the day and
maintaining integrity of
government
•
Sometimes they leak official
documents in order to stop them
from being passed if they think
they’re unethical
•
Top civil servants are
part of the grands
corps most of whom
are recruited from les
grandes ecoles such as
ENA
•
Immigration
Race relations act of
1965
a
Policies that acknowledged
difference in race, and
created institutional
appeals to racial
discrimination
"
Equal opportunity
"
Multicultural approach/ race-
relations approach
○
Growing pressure to asset
limits of multiculturalism
"
Response to urban riots and
US 9/11; London attacks in
2005
"
Initiation of a citizenship
test (2005) and language
requirements for
citizenship
"
More recently,
○
Schain emphasizes how
integration policies were the
product of political compromise
and consensus between the two
parties
○
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Vocabulary
Essay
Britain
France
Electoral
System
Single-member district/first-past-
the-post
•
PM is the party leader and then if
that party gets a majority they
become PM
•
Single-member district
and PR
•
Runoff!You must get
a majority
•
National Assembly:
First round, 12.5%.
Second round,
majority wins most
seats in government
•
Presidential: First
round, top two
candidates progress.
Second round,
majority
•
Senate: Indirect
elections
•
Executive PM is head of government
•
Queen is head of state
•
Has no real political power; just a
figurehead
•
Downing Street is where the PM
works
•
Semi-presidential
•
President is head of
state but has the most
power and sets the
agenda
•
PM aka Premier is
head of government
but typically has less
power than president
•
Legislature House of Lords (English nobility
inherited) can’t actually oppose
Parliament or House of
Commons
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by PM from House of
Commons
•
Whitehall is the name for
departments headed by cabinet
members and advised by the civil
services
•
Westminster is made up of
Downing Street, Whitehall, and
the House of Lords and
Commons
•
National Assembly:
Lower house in
legislature where most
bills are introduced
•
Senate: Upper house
with much less power
(though more than
House of Lords). Can
block legislation but
not really change
anything
•
Cabinet
•
Appointed by
President from
National Assembly
•
Judiciary Supreme Court Created in 2009
•
Consists of president and 11
judges appointed by a panel of
lawyers
•
Final court of appeal but powers
much more limited than US
Supreme Court
•
Can nullify government actions
but only if they do not exceed
powers of an Act of Parliament
and they cannot declare Acts of
Parliament unconstitutional
•
No tradition of judicial
review
•
The sovereignty of
Parliament has meant
that the legislature has
last word
•
The Constitutional
Council was created a
safeguard
•
President and
presidents od National
Assembly and Senate
appoint 3
representatives each to
serve for 9 year non-
renewable terms
•
Often legislation is
approved by the
council before it is
even presented
•
The Council of State is
also around and can
provide recourse to
individuals who have
claims against the
administration
•
Party System Multi-party system but SMD
makes it appear as a 2-party
system (Duverger’s Law) with
strong third party
•Multiparty
•
Second round of
presidential elections
are between two main
parties
•
Main Parties Conservative: Right
•
Labor: Center Left
•
Liberal Democrats: Left
•
Communists: Far left
and have decreased
drastically in power
•
Socialists: Current
party in power
•
UDF: Center right
party
•
UMP: Party of Nicolas
Sarkozy that is directly
descended from de
Gualle
•
National Front (FN):
Far right party led by
Marine Le Pen and
created by Jean-Marie
Le Pen
•
Effective #
Parties
~2.5-3.5
•~5.7
•
Unitary/Federal Unitary but there has been some
devolution of power to Scotland
(Blair’s program included this)
•
Devolution: Power handed down
from central governments to
other Parliaments in UK; N.
Ireland and Scotland
•
Unitary: Very Highly
centralized
•
More intense than in
Britain
•
Central government
has control over
departments, regions,
and communes
•
Interest Group
System
Pluralist Interest Group System
•
Many interest groups that lobby
the government
•
Neocorporatism
•
Government doesn’t
officially recognize it
as corporatism
•
System of interest
group representation,
under which particular
association,
representing particular
interests, have
privileged status to
speak for their group
•
Seen in France, where
some interest groups
have a privileged seat
when it comes to their
known politics
•
FNSA; Farmer
association
•
Voting Patterns There is not much indicator
within gender, family, or
education
•
Class used to be most important
but now only 40% consistently
vote along class lines
•
Religion is divisive
•
Class is a poor
predictor
•
Family affects voting
•
Abstention from
voting in elections is
common; presidential
elections have the
highest voter turnout
•
Major Leaders Tony Blair: PM til 2007 from
Labor party. Made the party
more centrist from far left.
Supported Iraq War which led
voters to dislike him
•
David Cameron: Conservative
PM after Blair for coalition
government with Liberal Dems
•
Jeremy Corbyn: Current Labor
PM as of Sept 12. Won in
landslide election within party.
Considered furthest left in
Parliament.
•
Francois Hollande:
Current Socialist
President. He is very
unpopular right now
and will probably not
win next election
•
Nicolas Sarkozy:
Previous president of
the UMP party. Wants
to run for president
again in the next
election
•
Jean-Marie Le Pen: FN
president
•
Marine Le Pen:
Current FN leader,
running for president
next election
•
Charles de Gualle:
Creator of 5th Republic
and first president
1958
•
Civil Service Prestigious job because they are
part of Whitehall when they
advise cabinet members
•
Are in charge of counseling the
government of the day and
maintaining integrity of
government
•
Sometimes they leak official
documents in order to stop them
from being passed if they think
they’re unethical
•
Top civil servants are
part of the grands
corps most of whom
are recruited from les
grandes ecoles such as
ENA
•
Immigration
Race relations act of
1965
a
Policies that acknowledged
difference in race, and
created institutional
appeals to racial
discrimination
"
Equal opportunity
"
Multicultural approach/ race-
relations approach
○
Growing pressure to asset
limits of multiculturalism
"
Response to urban riots and
US 9/11; London attacks in
2005
"
Initiation of a citizenship
test (2005) and language
requirements for
citizenship
"
More recently,
○
Schain emphasizes how
integration policies were the
product of political compromise
and consensus between the two
parties
○
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