Political parties

• Political parties are a group of people drawn together by a similar set of beliefs known as an ideology
• • Functions of a political party
  • providing government
  • participation
  • representation
  • recruiting office holders
  • formulating policy
• Left wing - a widely use term for those who desire change to the way In society operates, usually critism for capitalism
• Right wing reflects stressed need for stability and hierarchy
• Short money is speical state provision to support the activities of the opposition in parilment
• Modern liberals emereged due to free market capitalism, believing it led to people not being free
• Classical liberals beliebed individual freedom would be achieved if state played minimal role
• One nation is a paternalistic approach where rich are obligated to help poor
• Old labour embodies nationalism, redistribution of wealth from rich to poor and continuing improving of welfare and state services
• New Labour saw shift in focus on working class to a wider class base and less alliance with trade unions
• Party system is the way in which political parties are structured
• new right also known as thatcherism is neo conser who want the state to have more authoritve approach too law and order and neo liberals who want state to lay off peoples lives and buisnesses