evaluate political influence

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Anosh Eric

Cards (9)

  • Advantage:
    • each political party has its proposals for law reform ready and published in a manifesto during an election campaign so that if they are elected as the government, the electorate knows what they wish to do in the future parliamentary sessions to achieve their goals
  • Advantage:
    • If the government has a majority of seats in the hoisue of commons, virtually every one of their policy proposals will be passed. this can be said to make the law making process popular with the majority of the population
  • Advantage:
    • by publishing manifestos, the public know before an election what the broad proposals of each political party are and have a choice as to which set of proposals and law reforms they'd would wish to see in place
  • Advantage:
    • proposed changes to laws will be debated in parliament and improvements to initial proposals can be suggested and included
  • Advantage:
    • Members of the house of lords have expertise in a range of topics. suggestions made by the Lords to alter government proposals carry considerable weight and authority and are generally not political.
  • Disadvantage:
    • If a different party is elected in a general election from the previous governing party, they may decide to repeal or alter some of the laws that the previous government passed. this is because their policies are likely to be different from the previous government. As such, these changes can be costly, open to criticism and lead to piecemeal reform of laws.
  • Disadvantage:
    • if the government has a large majority of seats in the house of commons they can force their policy proposals and ignore criticism from the opposition
  • Disadvantage:
    • if the government has a small majority, it may be difficult or impossible to achieve changes to the law or their manifesto commitments
  • Disadvantage:
    • if a crisis occurs, such that of the COVID - 19 pandemic, the government's focus will be to take measures to deal with the crisis, which will likely differ from the commitments in their manifesto.