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Disaffection

Terms in this set (30)

'blurred ideas of popular sovereignty and universal suffrage' means voting is woven into British national identity
Butler and Stoke 1974
Trust in government and parties is extremely low
Norris 2011
Anti-political culture in Britain, alienated from mainstream parties, disdain for formal politics, disengagement from conventional participation
Stoker 2011
For the House of Lords to be effective it needs genuine powers, distinct composition and legitimacy
Lijphart 1984
Depoliticisation of politics
Hay 2007
Public choice theory, to apply economics to political problems, reduce democratic irrationality, remove 'expressive interests' in favour of practical utilitarian policies
Black 1958
'a globalised world in which elections are less meaningful as vehicles for achieving or blocking policy change'
Franklin 2004
'increase in participation of stakeholders does not necessarily lead to representation of global interests
Hanegraff & Poletti 2018
increased involvement if corporations in the functions of government makes the public uneasy
Herz 2001
'cartel thesis' - parties have withdrawn themselves from public life, managerial structures rather than representative bodies
Mair 2006 - parties
Parties have withdrawn from civil society and are willing to favour centralized managerialism rather than mediating and representing group-based interests
Whiteley and Seyd 2002
majority of citizens have little to no contact with political bodies or institutions
Grasso 2016
as politicians retreat from society, citizens feel party politics does not have a role in their life
Pattie and Johnson 2001
it is easier to be promoted in Whitehall if you have extensive pervious experience
Allen 2013
more Mps locally wanted
Childs and Crowley 2011
expectations gap - parliament not meant to challenge government
Finders and Kelso 2011
broken promises linked to the 'marketisation' of politics
Hay 2007
linked declining civil life and associational voluntarism to declining participation
Putnam 2000
membership of voluntary organisations gives citizens the opportunity to develop skills involved in active political participation
Verba, Scholzman & Brady 1995
changes in class composition and the relevance of class in political debates are likely to be central to decline in voting and sections of the working class who don't vote
Evans and Tilley 2012
Increasingly indivdualistic culture and rise of post materialistic values
Inglehart and Welzel 2006
pressure on people's time has made party activism undesirable
Mair 2006 - time
young people prefer single-issue campaigns that deal with practical issues in concrete and personal ways
Bang 2005
challenges the statement that young people are still participating just in different ways
Grasso 2014/16
want a move from narrow representative democracy to a participatory democracy
Hay 2007
social movements on the rise with a focus on equality, sexuality, environment and civil rights
Health et al 1990
recent developments and the emergence of social movements do not look likely to improve existent problems of voice and equality in political actions
Verba, Scholzman and Brady 1995
'many of the actors engaged in those conflicts [of the 1960s] were only partially related to the class conflicts'
Della Porta and Diani 2006
Educational attainment is linked to a citizen's level of political knowledge, interest and sophistication
Almond and Verba 1963
better educated are more likely to have the time, money, access to politically involved
Dalton 2008
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