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| Coalition of British Liberals and Social Democrats in the 1980s that became the Liberal Democrats of today. |
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| Members of a parliament who are not in the government or shadow cabinet. |
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| Published in the 1940s; set the stage for the British welfare state. |
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| Confederation of British Industry. |
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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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| Confederation of British Industry (CBI) |
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| The leading British business interest group. |
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| Britain’s most important right-of-center party, in power more often than not for two centuries. |
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| The Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union, made up of the head or deputy head of mission from the EU member states in Brussels. |
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| arrangements through which government, business, and labor leaders cooperatively set microeconomic or macroeconomic policy, normally outside of the regular electoral legislative process |
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| The condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors. It implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior out of respect or reverence. |
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| The process of decentralizing power from national governments that stops short of federalism. |
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| The European Coal and Steel Community, one of the precursors of the European Union, formerd in 1951. |
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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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| A practical peace agreement reached by the major parties in Northern Ireland with the British and Irish governments on, not surprisingly, Good Friday 1998. |
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| The belief that change should occur slowly or incrementally. |
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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 in Britain |
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| Created the EU and EMU; signed in 1992. |
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| The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today. |
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| In Britain and other parliamentary systems, another term for a party’s platform in an election campaign. |
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| U.S. funds provided for reconstruction of Europe after World War II. |
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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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| A French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". |
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| The members of parliament from a single party. |
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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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| Britain’s former Social Democratic Party |
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| In systems like Britain's, the official leadership of the opposition party that “shadows” 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 Labour. |
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| In a parliamentary system, statements to MPs that they must vote according to the party's wishes. |
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| Informal name for Britain's Conservative Party. |
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| Trade Unions Congress (TUC) |
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| Britain’s leading trade union confederation. |
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| In Britain and elsewhere, a government statement that outlines proposed legislation; the last stage before the submission of a formal bill. |
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