In 1080 there was 4.12% of the total electorate who were members of a political party. By the end of 2008, only 28 years later it dropped to 0.95%. Memberships of the Conservative party in particular the figures dropped from 1.20 million to 0.17 million, a drop of 1.03
However, Americans, regardless of all these progressions, feel unhappier in their government as they feel that their country has a fundamentally flawed political system; and have declining faith in their democracy. The Implications of this are that political participation has declined dramatically, since the 1960’s the voter turnout for presidential elections has fallen 20%. Voting is the least demanding of civic duties, other civic duties include party membership or participation in a school council. The past 40 years has seen an even more dramatic decrease in these kinds of political engagement. Some people blame this loss of faith in democracy on Watergate and Vietnam; however the doubt in government began before these events.
Today, the family size has decreased and this has stopped the deaths in the family as illnesses and diseases aren’t transmitted to one another quickly as they live together in a more fit environment. Also people had lower incomes in 1900 so they didn’t have enough money to spend on food or a healthy place to live or overall just didn’t have enough to provide for a
As well as a decline in the total number of marriages, there is also a decline in marriage rates (the number of people marrying per 1000 of the population aged 16 and over). In 1994, the marriage rate was 11.4 but this had declined to 10.3 by 2004. The male rate declined from 36.3 in 1994 to 27.8 in 2004 whilst the female rate declined from 30.6 to 24.6. Once again, even though there is a decline, British Social Attitude Surveys indicate that most people, whether single,
This is proven since in 1900 the IMR in the UK was 154 and by 2007 it had sharply declined to 5, owing to many factors including improved housing and better sanitation. So infant mortality rates decreasing has caused birth rate to decrease and therefore also decreasing family size. A final reason is the idea that children have become an economic liability. This is due to two many reasons, the first being laws
For decades now most democracies have stood by and watched as the voter turnout among youths has steadily decreased. This presents a major problem to democracies around the world as youths are not being properly represented thanks to the declining percentage of participants. In Canada’s 2008 federal election only 37 percent of the general population ages 18-24 participated (Barnes, 2010). This diminishing voter turnout among the youth can be explained by examining contributing factors such as the post-materialist values of this generation in a world where politicians cater to the materialistic values of the generations before them. Other factors include a lack of political knowledge and interest among the young due to a belief that certain political issues do not affect them, as well as low internal and external efficacy that afflicts today’s young voters.
Today, the family size has decreased and this has stopped the deaths in the family as illnesses and diseases aren’t transmitted to one another quickly as they live together in a more fit environment. Also people had lower incomes in 1900 so they didn’t have enough money to spend on food or a healthy place to live or overall just didn’t have enough to provide for a
The evidence supporting the class dealignment thesis may be seen in the fall if the majority voting for their natural class. For instance, the percentage not voting for their natural class increased from 44% in 1987 to 64% in 1996. Moreover, in 1997, 61% of the DE social class voted for Labour whereas in 2001 it had decreased to 50%, therefore demonstrating that class dealignment shows a weakening relationship between social class and party support. In the mid 1960's, B voters supporting Conservative and C1 and 2 voters supporting Labour accounted for 64% of the total vote. But the 1970's saw a decline in the number of people voting according to their natural class.
For example, 56% of middle class voted for Tory where as for Labour they only won 19% of the vote for middle class and the Liberal Democrats won 21%. However, for the unskilled working class the Tory won only 22% of the vote but Labour won 57% and Liberal Democrats won 16%. This highlights that there is clear class alignment with Labour having a higher proportion of the working class vote and Tory having the middle class vote confirming that certainly in 1974, people did tend to vote depending on their class. However, during the last few years we have seen that this link of partisan alignment actually is diminishing. This is seen when comparing the percentage of middle and working (skilled and unskilled) class voters in 1997, 2005 and 2010.
Finally, freedom of religion has become freedom from religion. These are three problems that I feel are bringing our country down. First, the middle class has no official definition, but the government considers a person middle class if your annual household income ranges between $25,500 and $76,500. Over the last 30 years, the middle class has shrunk tremendously. This is due in part by the average pay hasn’t increased enough