AP Comparative: United Kingdom

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Things to Remember: 

1. Hereditary monarchy is not an example of rational-legal authority in Britain.
2. Great Britain and The United States have legal and justice systems based on common law
3. In the early 12st century, ethnicity is a social cleavage that appears to be getting stronger in Britain.
4. Insularity may be linked most directly to its Britain's cautious attitude toward the European Union
5. Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown have all been leaders of the Labour party.
6. The post-World War II cabinet laid the foundations for a decentalized economy.
7. Tony Blair's "third way" was an attempt to balance the socialist policies of the Labour Party during the 1970s with the demands made by the Democratic Liberal Party for the more personal liberties.
8. Tony Blair's support for devolution was primarly stimulated by Britain's problems with multi-national identities 
9. In modern times political elites in Britain have most often been recruited from Oxbridge
10. The Conservative party gets most of its support from rural and suburban areas of England.
11. The British political party most disadvantaged by plurality voting system is Liberal Democratic
12. Quangos best represent neo-corporatism.
13. collective responsibility is a concept that applies most clearly to the British cabinet
14. The prime minister does not have an excellent chance at ending up in gridlock with the parliament.
15. Britain's highest court of appeals consists of the law lords.
16. Referenda on British policy issuese have actually been held for regional assemblies.