It succeeds in this as if a party is not representing the people in the way they said or are not fulfilling their promises then the people can choose another party who they think can represent them in a better way than the previous party. Elections also hold individual MPs to account as well based on their record, and example of this is the 2009 expenses scandal in which many MPs stepped down rather than face the verdict of the voters and so elections fulfil their purpose as they succeed at holding parties and MPs to account. However elections don’t fulfil their purpose as they are failing in the area of participation from the public as the level of turnout over recent times has gradually fallen as in the 2001 general election the turnout was 59.4%, is the lowest it has been since 1918. In the 2005 general election the turnout was 61.4% and in the 2010 general election the turnout
Should the Westminster electoral system be reformed? The Westminster electoral system has been a target for reform for a long time. Despite the loss in the 2011 referendum, reform is still wanted by a number of people especially the Liberal Democrats who will benefit the most. First Past the Post is the system that Westminster uses for election to the Houses of Commons it is a simple majority or plurality system that requires a candidate to get more votes than anyone else. One argument that the Westminster electoral system should be reformed is that First Past the Post doesn't give the social representation that other system gives, for example in the Parliament elected in 2010, women, 51% of the population, are represented by 22% of Parliament therefore an under representation, however, university educated are overrepresented, 91% of the Houses of Commons represent 31% of the population but having PR doesn't guarantee that the social composition of Parliament only making the percentage of votes more proportional towards the seats.
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Despite of this, Labour decided not to move ahead with the reforms. This shows that first past the post benefits the government in power because the party has majority of the votes in parliament in which makes it difficult for the other party to be heard if they want changes. Furthermore, tactical voting on first past the post encourages voters to vote for a candidate who has a better chance of winning. It prevents the election of a candidate representing the most disliked party. Example for this is in 1997 many Lib Dem and Labour voter tactically voted to get sitting Conservative
When Obama enter the White House he reached a high unemployment rate sparking from the 800 billion stimulus plan that was put in effect from George .W. Bush. Romney agrees but decided that lower taxes, less regulations, balanced budget, replace jobless benefits with unemployment savings accounts and proposed tougher financial industries in response to corporate scandals. Both Romney and Obama agree on the education laws of No child left behind however Romney thinks the federal government should have less control of what goes on in the educational system. The first presidential debate and both president Obama and Romney agreed that their corporate taxes are too high.
Economist believes that this system will do nothing to control cost but the budget office believes the bill will reduce the cost over a ten-year period. The cost concerns affected Americans because it helped Republicans win control over the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections and they also threatened to remove government funding. This reform also affected Doctors in the United States. Lifesitenews.com states that Doctors believe this Health Care reform will not be fair to them because the nurse practitioners and physicians assistant will be caring for the Patients hands on rather than the doctors even though they have more medical experience. His next plan of action was by using budget deficits which stop
If this this is something MoveOn practices, I don’t think I can support this part completely. I believe politicians should sell us on the good they have been able to do before they were elected, their character, and weather or not they will be to person who really listens to the people and makes our voices heard. I will acknowledge that MoveOn supports many candidates through donations that are less than $20 and that is something I would rather have than major corporations donating billions to “buy”
Attorney Charles Foster headed a task force on immigration for the Greater Houston Partnership. “It is a dysfunctional system; one day a year you can petition for the brightest people in the world, and then you have a 30 percent chance," he said. Many pro-reform business executives are Republicans, but Foster says the party’s immigration policy is controlled by the Tea Party movement. “Their anger, their opposition, is mostly based upon rumor and anecdotal stuff that has little to do with the truth. When you get before them and explain what real immigration reform means, they have a very different position," he said.
“An effective president must be every year more concerned with projecting images of himself”, “our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals” (Source C). A good example of this would be Bill Clinton disclosing his choice of underwear with the American public. “He had been asked to do so by a member of the MTV generation” (Source B). Due to “televisions sense of intimacy, the American people feel they know their presidents as person and hence no longer feel the need for party guidance” (Source B). Although media created an increase in public involvement with politics, the interest has been subdued and replaced by a more apathetic political view by the public.