The Election Swept Away Years Of Liberal Government

During the latter part of the nineteenth century, presumably around the 1890's, it became known as the Progressive Era, a time of change, reform, and adaptation. As Vernon L. Parrignton put it, it was a "democratic renaissance" (Vernon L. Parrington in The Progressive Movement: Liberal or Conservative). So what was Progressivism? Well, its main goals were to curb corporate power, to end business monopolies, and to wipe out political corruption. They also wanted to democratize electoral procedures, protect working people, and bridge the gap between social classes. They called for reforms such as the referendum, initiative, and the recall. They wanted the Americanization of the immigrant and the

The election campaign in 1964 was a close run contest even though there was a low public approval of the current Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. The labour party only won a majority of 3 seats. The reason for the decline in support for the Conservative party was because of events and scandals such as the Profumo affair

While the liberal experienced emotional changes amid the 1970s, the Communist agreement experienced reduced rates of development yet not the sorts of amazing economic rebuilding that happened in the West. These improvements in the 1970s suggested the Cold War's determination in the 1980s. Arranged in similar connection, the changes of the liberal world economy during the 1970s uncovered – an in a few ways improved – the relative backwardness of the Soviet Union's charge economy, with final outcomes for the truth of the Communist administration. Universal fiscal change, in this view, encouraged the ideological and geopolitical improvements that would take the Cold War.

It is 2014 and since the beginning of the millennium there has been a major shift in America’s political ideology and demographics, more so than in any set period of time. America which has historically been very conservative, has started to become more liberally made evident by the results of the last two elections. Although America’s government is based on a less centralized system and free market, Americans have seemed to start embracing things like big government and a stricter market. Americans are also starting to think different on social issues such as homosexuality and drug usage. America has also experienced a change in its demographics as minorities like Asians and Hispanics continue to grow while whites are, percentage wise, starting to make up a smaller part of Americas population. Along with a shift in ideology and change in demographics, technology and communication has advanced greatly making the world a much more connected place. Because of this connectivity people are also beginning to be influenced by foreign ideas that are not familiar to most Americans such as universal healthcare. Overall, because of factors such as foreign influences due to technology and changing demographics, America has become less conservative and more liberal.

This was the case for Labour in 1997 when they won a landslide majority of 418 seats in the House of Commons.

Another contributing factor at this election may have been performance in office, which in the above statement is not seen as important as personality and image. However, performance in office may have been extremely detrimental for the conservatives in 1997 because of their crisis in 1992. This focuses on the retrospective model, as people saw the Conservatives as incompetent in handling the economy because of Black Wednesday in September 1992. The Conservatives and especially Noramnt Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer, were to blame for the crisis that saw the pound forced out of the ERM. This didn’t help at the 1997 general election where they did extremely badly in a huge Labour win.

Question 1: After the civil war, during the period of Reconstruction in the South it was chaotic causing the creation of new issues and problems between the people of the South. One of the issues that came to existence was that of a one sided dominant political party that controlled the South and everything in it, the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was the party of the wealthy aristocratic white man which had the money and intelligence to control and influence the local/state government to do as they want it to do. Because in the South there were two different classes of the white people, the upper white class that was well known within their community that was well educated and had excessive amounts of money to use.

“Reporting live form Campaign Headquarters, it’s voting day here at Morning University, this is Kerry Missy. Students are out in record numbers this morning casting their votes to elect the next student leader representative. The energy here in the student welcome center is just phenomenal, with ten minutes’ left before the polls close, Timothy Cruise, has just cast his vote. Who will be the victor of this extremely close race between Michael Manor and Timothy Cruise? As the counts have started coming in it is still any one’s game, these two candidates are still neck and neck. One-minute left until the polls close and Michael Manor, has yet to arrive and cast his vote. His campaign team, looks to be in a panic. It is the top of the hour and polls have just closed. If you have not voted as yet folks, it’s too late now. I will be reporting this evening from the Marshall auditorium announcing the new student leader representative. This is Kerry Missy signing off.” Later that evening Kerry announced Timothy Cruise had won the election by one vote, Michael, and his best friend Mark had not voted that morning.

The conservatives lost the general election in 1945 for a number of reasons some of which were the attitudes of many of the British after the war and the way the country had been run in the time leading up to the election. The labour party had gone from a party which people feared as being socialist to a party which during the war had shown was very much a balanced party which would not ruin the middle and upper classes and yet provide services that would help the poor and also be available to the other classes. The conservatives had put little effort into running the country whilst the war was going on and had assumed that winning the war would be enough to be re-elected. The

The Labour government of 1974-1979 also won two elections, the 1974 February election and the 1974 October election, however both were won by a minority. The February election was won by 4 seats and the October election was won by 42 seats. The reason for the slim win is to do with inflation. The Labour governments of 1974-1979 were in office at a bad time because Britain had started to suffer from huge inflation because of the oil price rise in 1973, and so voters didn’t have a clear decision on which they were going to vote for. This shows that at the moment the 1964-1970 Labour Government was more successful by far because of their majority of 110 seats in the 1966 election.

10: Using your own knowledge as well as the extract, consider why some commentators have spoken of a ‘participation crisis’ in recent years.

Unionists on every issue that they were weak on and the Boer War was a

HIs brother had no problem doing that. Final debate goes well now it's on to final voting this is the biggest day. If Phil doesn't win, then Vermont will suck and continue to be an expensive place to live. Sue minter mentioned nothing about money or jobs so there's a bigger chance of people leaving Vermont. Phil felt pretty good about how all the debates went. Now it was up to Vermont to decide.

Liberals' Victory in the 1906 Election There are various reasons given as to why the Liberals succeeded in winning the 1906 elections, decline in support towards the Conservative party, a new Liberal attitude which enabled its members to reunite instead of seeing their seperate ways which is what lead to their initial collapse. The Conservative Party like the Liberal Party split over the issue of Free Trade and failed to reunite, unlike the Liberals which did so and remained so. With the Liberals being reunited regarding the issues they believed in and campaigned for enabled them to attack the Conservatives more easily. The Liberals unlike the Conservative Party weren't affected and too

It was, however, when his donation numbers and vote counts dropped, that he knew he had to pay closer attention to every aspect of the nation’s demographic. It had been long known that when it came to matters of internal conviction and even a sense of community, southern pride decided his election. Frank had been solid blue according to the polling map, so it was rare that when issues came up he sided with his red voters.