AP Comparative Government Britain

What is Keynesian Economics?

• If you increase government spending and lower taxes, it increases demand and therefore stimulates the economy.

• Equal means of production and distribution of wealth equally amongst the masses.

• The idea of people controlling businesses with minimal intervention from the government.

Socialism- how would you best define it?

• The government owning business and providing basic needs through tax money.

• When the people seize the means of production and equally redistribute the wealth.

• Bernie Sanders

The Pound

• American Dollar

• UK official currency

• When u put ur hand in a fist and bump it into another fist

• Secondary currency in the UK to the euro

NHS- National Health Care System- What is it?

• Health care plan for government employees

• National Honors Society

• Government provided health care in the UK for all citizens

• Obama Care

Quangos

• Non-Government organizations that provide services that the government would normally provide- completely independent

• The name for french representatives

• What they call the opposing government in parliament

• Country in Africa

Whitehall definition:

• The British whitehouse

• Street in Westminster where many government offices are located

• Lodge for the Prime Minister

• Fancy dining hall for the prime ministers dogs

10 Downing- Who lives here?

• Prime Minister

• Ron Swanson

• The Queen

• The Lords from the House of Lords

Parliament definition

• A document the queen wrote

• Only the House of Lords

• Executive and Legislative branch of the UK government

What's the difference between the House of Commons and the House of Lords?

• House of Lords= appointed based on knowledge, not much power

  House of Commons= FPTP elected officials that make of the government and shadow it, includes the prime minister, a lot of power

• House of Lords= FPTP elected officials that make of the government and shadow it, includes the prime minister, a lot of power

  House of Commons= appointed based on knowledge, not much power

• The houses the Queen sleeps in each night

What does BBC stand for

• British Board of Commons

• Babies Breaking Cups

• British Broadcasting Corporation