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Red and Blue America is a theory developed by Caesar and Busch to describe the polarised nature of the American political system, not only depicting the specific ideologies of states but characterising them ...

Partisan dealignement is a term used to describe a pattern of voting behaviour. It suggests that less voters are strongly attached to a political party. As the electorate (voters) lose their emotional loyalt...

The First Past the Post (FPTP) system is used for United Kingdom general elections. It consists of various elections in single member constituencies, the winner simply being the candidate who wins the most v...

The principle of social welfare is the idea that the state has a responsibility to intervene in the lives of citizens in order to ensure a basic standard of living, for instance through policies such as prog...

Single member plurality, known in the UK as First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), is a plurality electoral system under which each constituency elects one member of parliament, that is that who gets the most votes (=p...