Electoral Systems & Voting Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• class: _ de-alignment - a tendency, increasing in modern times, for people to disassociate themselves from one particular class and its dominant political attitudes.
• minority government: a government that does not command a parliamentary majority. such governments are unstable and have difficulty surviving. they have to seek a consensus of support for all their proposals.
• partisan: _ de-alignment - people who, in the past, identified themselves closely with one particular party are increasingly seeing themselves as independent of any such attachment.
• mandate: the successful party following an election has the authority to implement promises outline in their manifesto.
• coalition: _ government - where a government is formed from more than one party. in a coalition, seats in the government are shared among more than one party and proposals have to be agreed in advance by all members of the coalition.
• first past: _ the post - a constituency system. voters select a single candidate, and do so by marking his/her name with an 'x'.each constituency returns one single candidate, and it has a "winner takes all" effect.
• safe seat: a constituency where one party is so dominant that it is almost unthinkable that it will not win the seat at every election.
• marginal seat: a seat held by a small majority
• manifesto: in a manifesto a political party will give in detail what actions and promises it would like to put in place if it is successful in the next election.