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Turnout is the proportion of registered voters who cast a ballot at a given election, expressed as a percentage. Some political commentators have turned to the ‘turnout’ at certain elections when measuring p...

Liberalism, an ideology born out of the Enlightenment and the subsequent thirst for knowledge, seeks to base decision on empirical fact, or ‘a-posteriori’ knowledge. All liberals believe that humans are rati...

This is a very common question asked in the ideologies part of the A-level course. It is essential to gain a knowledge of what conservatism actually is as an ideology and then to compare this to the state of...

One way which the cabinet is losing importance is by the introduction of ‘sofa governments’ and the use of high level executive committees. Blair is one example of this, he used a ‘kitchen cabinet’ meaning h...

Insider Pressure Groups - have access to government through 'access points'. They are politically sophisticated groups of people who generally have a large membership of highly-skilled members with a lot of ...