POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, Political Philosophy, Vagueness

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 140
• Professor: Ronald Inglehart

Document Summary

Britain stands out bc its an old democracy; evolution not revolution. Uk created 1801 by merging england, scotland, wales, & ireland under authority of. Limitations of british model: inability to be translated to countries gaining independence from brit empire, failure to bring stability in n ireland. England developed modern system during reign of queen victoria to cope with problems of a society that was increasingly urban, literate, industrial. Party w/most votes gains absolute majority of seats (326) in hoc + forms gov. 2010: conservative party under cameron (307 seats), labour (258), lib dem (57) Result: coalition gov"t w/ conservative cameron as pm and lib dem clegg as deputy. To help keep coalition together, law gave hoc a fixed term of 5 years. British import food and raw materials; export manufactured goods and. Economic crisis hit while labour was in power, so coalition could initially blame them. 1981 former labour cabinet ministers formed centrist sdp in alliance w/ lib party;