Politics Essay

​Exam Key:

No extra time - RVQbMf
25% extra time - ivFMmW
30% extra time - RVQbMF

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Class: Higher Politics

Teacher: Mrs Campbell

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Draw

Read over the introduction and paragraph and identify where this candidate would get their KU, KU+ and A marks.

Reorder

Read over the three options for paragraph two of a Voting Behaviour essay and selection the option that is in the correct order. Rank them from best to worse as options.

• Overall this shows that the rational choice model has helped the conservative party achieve success by giving them the opportunity to profit off of economic issues but in recent years issue voting has dominated this theory therefore making the rational choice model less effective within voting behaviour.

• Two examples are Scottish Independence and Brexit.

  Both of these political events saw large shifts in voting behaviour, UKIP’s vote share dropped 10.8% between 2015 and 2017 after the referendum happened and Boris Johnson was able to win a parliamentary majority by using a slogan of “Get Brexit Done.”

• However many would say that “issue voting” has dominated the rational choice model in recent years.

  Instead of considering a range of issues with direct individual impact, voters have recently been hyper focused on huge issues with mostly indirect, national implications. Two examples are Scottish Independence and Brexit.

  Both of these political events saw large shifts in voting behaviour, UKIP’s vote share dropped 10.8% between 2015 and 2017 after the referendum happened and Boris Johnson was able to win a parliamentary majority by using a slogan of “Get Brexit Done.”

  This shows that rational voting is unsuccessful because in recent years single issue voting has become more popular than rational voting showing the decline in popularity of it.

  Overall this shows that the rational choice model has helped the conservative party achieve success by giving them the opportunity to profit off of economic issues but in recent years issue voting has dominated this theory therefore making the rational choice model less effective within voting behaviour.

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Poll

Has this quick introduction to Quizizz and its features helped with this lesson to be more interactive and have feedback on the tasks we are doing in class?

• No - I prefer lecture style?

• Not sure :/

• Yes - lets do this again!