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 Table of Content
I. Comparative and Analytical Study of the Political
Systems:………………………….………6

• Political System of U.S.A, U.K, France and Germany

II. Global and Regional

Integration………………………………………………………………...65

• Globalization and Politics, Global Civil Society, Regional politico-economic integration

and organizational structure of the European Union, SARRC, ECO, International
Financial Regimes IMF and WTO

III. Comparative and Analytical Study of the Political

Systems:…………………………..……..107

• Political system of Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, India and China

IV. Political Movements in India (Colonial

Period):……………………………………………...145

Rise of Muslim Nationalism in South Asia and Pakistan Movement (with special reference to
the role of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Iqbal and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah)

V. Government and Politics in

Pakistan:…………………………………………………………185

Constitution making from 1947 -1956, A comparative and critical analysis of 1956,
1962, 1973 Constitutions of Pakistan, Constitutional Amendments up-to-date, Federal
structure in Pakistan, and Central-Provincial relations after 18th amendments, Political
Culture of Pakistan, political developments and the Role of civil and military
Bureaucracy, Judiciary, feudalism, Dynastic Politics, Political Parties and Interest Groups,
elections and Voting Behavior, Religion and Politics, Ethnicity and National Integration,

VI. International
Relations:………………………………………………………………………..…375

History of International Relations: Post WWII Period Foreign Policy of Pakistan: National
Interests and Major Determinations i-e

• Size/Geography
• Economic Development
• Security
• Advancement in Technology
• National Capacity
• Political Parties/Leadership
• Ideology

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 • National Interest
• Role of Press/Bureaucracy
• Social Structure
• Public Opinion
• Diplomacy.

Also external factors like International Power Structure, International Organizations, World
Public Opinion and reaction of other states.

• Foreign Policy-making Process in

Pakistan…………………………………..……………414

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Political System of U.S.A
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United
States (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers
reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with
the state governments.

The executive branch is headed by the President and is formally independent of both the
legislature and the judiciary. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress,
the Senate and the House of Representatives. The judicial branch (or judiciary), composed of
the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, exercises judicial power (or judiciary). The
judiciary's function is to interpret the United States Constitution and federal laws and
regulations. This includes resolving disputes between the executive and legislative branches.
The federal government's layout is explained in the Constitution. Two political parties, the
Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have dominated American politics since the
American Civil War, although there are also smaller parties like the Libertarian Party, the
Green Party, and the Constitution Party.

There are major differences between the political system of the United States and that of
most other developed democracies. These include greater power in the upper house of the
legislature, a wider scope of power held by the Supreme Court, the separation of powers
between the legislature and the executive, and the dominance of only two main parties. Third
parties have less political influence in the United States than in other developed country
democracies; this is because of a combination of stringent historic controls. These controls
take shape in the form of state and federal laws, informal media prohibitions, and winner-
take-all elections, and include ballot access issues and exclusive debate rules.

The federal entity created by the U.S. Constitution is the dominant feature of the American
governmental system. However, most people are also subject to a state government, and all
are subject to various units of local government. The latter include counties, municipalities,
and special districts.

This multiplicity of jurisdictions reflects the country's history. The federal government was
created by the states, which as colonies were established separately and governed
themselves independently of the others. Units of local government were created by the
colonies to efficiently carry out various state functions. As the country expanded, it admitted
new states modeled on the existing ones.

Political culture

Scholars from Alexis de Tocqueville to the present have found a strong continuity in core
American political values since the time of the American Revolution in the late 18th
century.[1]

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Colonial origins

Some of Britain's North American colonies became exceptional in the European world for
their vibrant political culture, which attracted the most talented and ambitious young men
into politics.[2] Reasons for this exceptionalism included:

First, suffrage was the most widespread in the world, with every man who owned a certain
amount of property allowed to vote. While fewer than 20% of British men could vote, a
majority of white American men were eligible. While the roots of democracy were apparent,
nevertheless deference was typically shown to social elites in colonial elections.[3] That
deference declined sharply with the American Revolution.

Second, in each colony, elected bodies, especially the assemblies and county governments,
decided a wide range of public and private business.[4] Topics of public concern and debate
included land grants, commercial subsidies, and taxation, as well as oversight of roads, poor
relief, taverns, and schools. Americans spent a great deal of time in court, as private lawsuits
were very common. Legal affairs were overseen by local judges and juries, with a central
role for trained lawyers. This promoted the rapid expansion of the legal profession, and the
dominant role of lawyers in politics was apparent by the 1770s, as attested by the careers of
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, among many others.[5]

Thirdly, the North American colonies were exceptional in the world context because of the
growth of representation of different interest groups. Unlike in Europe, where royal courts,
aristocratic families and established churches exercised control, the American political
culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians,
Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers,[citation needed] and many other
identifiable groups. Over 90% of the representatives elected to the legislature lived in their
districts, unlike in England where it was common to have an absentee member of Parliament.

Finally, and most dramatically, the Americans became fascinated by and increasingly
adopted the political values of republicanism, which stressed equal rights, the need for
virtuous citizens, and the evils of corruption, luxury, and aristocracy.[6]

None of the colonies had political parties of the sort that formed in the 1790s, but each had
shifting factions that vied for power.

American ideology

Republicanism, along with a form of classical liberalism, remains the dominant ideology.[7]
Central documents include the Declaration of Independence (1776), Constitution (1787), The
Federalist Papers (1788), Bill of Rights (1791), and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
(1863), among others. The political scientist Louis Hartz articulated this theme in American
political culture in The Liberal Tradition in America (1955). Hartz saw the antebellum South
as breaking away from this central ideology in the 1820s as it constructed a fantasy to
support hierarchical, feudal society. Others, such as David Gordon of the libertarian,
Alabama-based Mises Institute argue that the secessionists who formed the Confederacy in
1861 retained the values of classical liberalism.[8][9] Among the core tenets of this ideology
are the following:[10]

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Civic duty: citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government,
participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.

Opposition to Political corruption.

• Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change the

representatives through elections.
• Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen.
Government officials are subject to the law just as others are.
• Freedom of religion: The government can neither support nor suppress religion.
• Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict through law or action the
personal, non-violent speech of a citizen; a marketplace of ideas.

In response to Hartz and others, political scientist Rogers M. Smith argued in Civic Ideals
(1999) that in addition to liberalism and republicanism, United States political culture has
historically served to exclude various populations from access to full citizenship. Terming this
ideological tradition "ascriptive inegalitarianism," Smith traces its relevance in nativist, sexist,
and racist beliefs and practices alongside struggles over citizenship laws from the early
colonial period to the Progressive Era, and further political debates in the following century.

At the time of the United States' founding, agriculture and small private businesses
dominated the economy, and state governments left welfare issues to private or local
initiative. Laissez-faire ideology was largely abandoned in the 1930s during the Great
Depression. Between the 1930s and 1970s, fiscal policy was characterized by the Keynesian
consensus, a time during which modern American liberalism dominated economic policy
virtually unchallenged. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, laissez-faire ideology,
as explained especially by Milton Friedman, has once more become a powerful force in
American politics.[12] While the American welfare state expanded more than threefold after
World War II, it has been at 20% of GDP since the late 1970s.[13][14] As of 2014 modern
American liberalism, and modern American conservatism are engaged in a continuous
political battle, characterized by what The Economist describes as "greater divisiveness [and]
close, but bitterly fought elections."[15]

Usage of "left–right" politics:

The modern American political spectrum and the usage of the terms "left–right politics",
"liberalism", and "conservatism" in the United States differs from the rest of the world.
According to American historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (writing in 1956), "Liberalism in the
American usage has little in common with the word as used in the politics of any European
country, save possibly Britain". Schlesinger noted that American liberalism does not support
classical liberalism's commitment to limited government and laissez-faire economics.[16]
Because those two positions are instead generally supported by American conservatives,
historian Leo P. Ribuffo noted in 2011, "what Americans now call conservatism much of the
world calls liberalism or neoliberalism."[17]

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Suffrage:

The right of suffrage is nearly universal for citizens 18 years of age and older. All states and
the District of Columbia contribute to the electoral vote for President. However, the District,
and other U.S. holdings like Puerto Rico and Guam, lack federal representation in Congress.
These constituencies do not have the right to choose any political figure outside their
respective areas. Each commonwealth, territory, or district can only elect a non-voting
delegate to serve in the House of Representatives.

Women's suffrage became an important issue after the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
After the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1870, giving
African American men the right to vote, various women's groups wanted the right to vote as
well. Two major interest groups formed. The first group was the National Woman Suffrage
Association, formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that wanted to work
for suffrage on the federal level and to push for more governmental changes, such as the
granting of property rights to married women.[18] The second group, the American Woman
Suffrage Association formed by Lucy Stone, aimed to give women the right to vote.[19] In
1890, the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA). The NAWSA then mobilized to obtain support state-by-state, and by 1920, the
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, giving women the right
to vote.[20]

Student activism against the Vietnam War in the 1960s prompted the passage of the Twenty-
sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to
18, and prohibited age discrimination at the voting booth.

State government:

States governments have the power to make laws that are not granted to the federal
government or denied to the states in the U.S. Constitution for all citizens.These include
education, family law, contract law, and most crimes. Unlike the federal government, which
only has those powers granted to it in the Constitution, a state government has inherent
powers allowing it to act unless limited by a provision of the state or national constitution.

Like the federal government, state governments have three branches: executive, legislative,
and judicial. The chief executive of a state is its popularly elected governor, who typically
holds office for a four-year term (although in some states the term is two years). Except for
Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the
upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of
Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar. In most states,
senators serve four-year terms, and members of the lower house serve two-year terms.

The constitutions of the various states differ in some details but generally follow a pattern
similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people
and a plan for organizing the government. However, state constitutions are generally more
detailed.

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Local government:

There are 89,500 local governments, including 3,033 counties, 19,492 municipalities, 16,500
townships, 13,000 school districts, and 37,000 other special districts that deal with issues like
fire protection.[21] Local governments directly serve the needs of the people, providing
everything from police and fire protection to sanitary codes, health regulations, education,
public transportation, and housing. Typically local elections are nonpartisan—local activists
suspend their party affiliations when campaigning and governing.

About 28% of the people live in cities of 100,000 or more population. City governments are
chartered by states, and their charters detail the objectives and powers of the municipal
government. The United States Constitution only provides for states and territories as
subdivisions of the country, and the Supreme Court has accordingly confirmed the
supremacy of state sovereignty over municipalities. For most big cities, cooperation with
both state and federal organizations is essential to meeting the needs of their residents.
Types of city governments vary widely across the nation. However, almost all have a central
council, elected by the voters, and an executive officer, assisted by various department
heads, to manage the city's affairs. Cities in the West and South usually have nonpartisan
local politics.

There are three general types of city government: the mayor-council, the commission, and
the council-manager. These are the pure forms; many cities have developed a combination
of two or three of them.

Mayor-Council

This is the oldest form of city government in the United States and, until the beginning of the
20th century, was used by nearly all American cities. Its structure is like that of the state and
national governments, with an elected mayor as chief of the executive branch and an elected
council that represents the various neighborhoods forming the legislative branch. The mayor
appoints heads of city departments and other officials, sometimes with the approval of the
council. He or she has the power of veto over ordinances (the laws of the city) and often is
responsible for preparing the city's budget. The council passes city ordinances, sets the tax
rate on property, and apportions money among the various city departments. As cities have
grown, council seats have usually come to represent more than a single neighborhood.

The Commission

This combines both the legislative and executive functions in one group of officials, usually
three or more in number, elected city-wide. Each commissioner supervises the work of one
or more city departments. Commissioners also set policies and rules by which the city is
operated. One is named chairperson of the body and is often called the mayor, although his
or her power is equivalent to that of the other commissioners.[23]

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Council-Manager

The city manager is a response to the increasing complexity of urban problems that need
management ability not often possessed by elected public officials. The answer has been to
entrust most of the executive powers, including law enforcement and provision of services,
to a highly trained and experienced professional city manager.

The city manager plan has been adopted by a large number of cities. Under this plan, a
small, elected council makes the city ordinances and sets policy, but hires a paid
administrator, also called a city manager, to carry out its decisions. The manager draws up
the city budget and supervises most of the departments. Usually, there is no set term; the
manager serves as long as the council is satisfied with his or her work.

County government

The county is a subdivision of the state, sometimes (but not always) containing two or more
townships and several villages. New York City is so large that it is divided into five separate
boroughs, each a county in its own right. On the other hand, Arlington County, Virginia, the
United States' smallest county, located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.,
is both an urbanized and suburban area, governed by a unitary county administration. In
other cities, both the city and county governments have merged, creating a consolidated
city–county government.

In most U.S. counties, one town or city is designated as the county seat, and this is where
the government offices are located and where the board of commissioners or supervisors
meets. In small counties, boards are chosen by the county; in the larger ones, supervisors
represent separate districts or townships. The board collects taxes for state and local
governments; borrows and appropriates money; fixes the salaries of county employees;
supervises elections; builds and maintains highways and bridges; and administers national,
state, and county welfare programs. In very small counties, the executive and legislative
power may lie entirely with a sole commissioner, who is assisted by boards to supervise
taxes and elections. In some New England states, counties do not have any governmental
function and are simply a division of land.

Town and village government:

Thousands of municipal jurisdictions are too small to qualify as city governments. These are
chartered as towns and villages and deal with local needs such as paving and lighting the
streets, ensuring a water supply, providing police and fire protection, and waste
management. In many states of the US, the term town does not have any specific meaning; it
is simply an informal term applied to populated places (both incorporated and
unincorporated municipalities). Moreover, in some states, the term town is equivalent to how
civil townships are used in other states.

The government is usually entrusted to an elected board or council, which may be known by
a variety of names: town or village council, board of selectmen, board of supervisors, board

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of commissioners. The board may have a chairperson or president who functions as chief
executive officer, or there may be an elected mayor. Governmental employees may include a
clerk, treasurer, police and fire officers, and health and welfare officers.

One unique aspect of local government, found mostly in the New England region of the
United States, is the town meeting. Once a year, sometimes more often if needed, the
registered voters of the town meet in open session to elect officers, debate local issues, and
pass laws for operating the government. As a body, they decide on road construction and
repair, construction of public buildings and facilities, tax rates, and the town budget. The
town meeting, which has existed for more than three centuries in some places, is often cited
as the purest form of direct democracy, in which the governmental power is not delegated,
but is exercised directly and regularly by all the people.

Political parties and elections

The United States Constitution has never formally addressed the issue of political parties,
primarily because the Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be
partisan. In Federalist papers No. 9 and No. 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison,
respectively, wrote specifically about the dangers of domestic political factions. In addition,
the first President of the United States, George Washington, was not a member of any
political party at the time of his election or throughout his tenure as president. Furthermore,
he hoped that political parties would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation.[28]
Nevertheless, the beginnings of the American two-party system emerged from his immediate
circle of advisers. Hamilton and Madison ended up being the core leaders in this emerging
party system.

In partisan elections, candidates are nominated by a political party or seek public office as an
independent. Each state has significant discretion in deciding how candidates are nominated,
and thus eligible to appear on the election ballot. Typically, major party candidates are
formally chosen in a party primary or convention, whereas minor party and Independents are
required to complete a petitioning process.

Political parties:

The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by
the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. These two parties have won every United
States presidential election since 1852 and have controlled the United States Congress
since 1856. The Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American
politics and supports a modern American liberal platform, while the Republican Party
generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a modern American conservative
platform.

Third parties have achieved relatively minor representation from time to time at local levels.
The Libertarian Party is the largest third party in the country, claiming more than 250,000
registered voters;[29] it generally positions itself as centrist or radical centrist and supports a

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classical liberal position. Other contemporary third parties include the left-wing Green Party,
supporting Green politics, and the right-wing Constitution Party.

Elections:

Unlike in some parliamentary systems, Americans vote for a specific candidate instead of
directly selecting a particular political party. With a federal government, officials are elected
at the federal (national), state and local levels. On a national level, the President, is elected
indirectly by the people, through an Electoral College. In modern times, the electors virtually
always vote with the popular vote of their state. All members of Congress, and the offices at
the state and local levels are directly elected.

Both federal and state laws regulate elections. The United States Constitution defines (to a
basic extent) how federal elections are held, in Article One and Article Two and various
amendments. State law regulates most aspects of electoral law, including primaries, the
eligibility of voters (beyond the basic constitutional definition), the running of each state's
electoral college, and the running of state and local elections.

Organization of American political parties:

American political parties are more loosely organized than those in other countries. The two
major parties, in particular, have no formal organization at the national level that controls
membership, activities, or policy positions, though some state affiliates do. Thus, for an
American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party, is quite
different from a Briton's stating that he or she is a member of the Conservative or Labour
party. In the United States, one can often become a "member" of a party, merely by stating
that fact. In some U.S. states, a voter can register as a member of one or another party
and/or vote in the primary election for one or another party. Such participation does not
restrict one's choices in any way. It also does not give a person any particular rights or
obligations within the party, other than possibly allowing that person to vote in that party's
primary elections. A person may choose to attend meetings of one local party committee one
day and another party committee the next day. The sole factor that brings one "closer to the
action" is the quantity and quality of participation in party activities and the ability to persuade
others in attendance to give one responsibility.

Party identification becomes somewhat formalized when a person runs for partisan office. In
most states, this means declaring oneself a candidate for the nomination of a particular party
and intent to enter that party's primary election for an office. A party committee may choose
to endorse one or another of those who is seeking the nomination, but in the end the choice
is up to those who choose to vote in the primary, and it is often difficult to tell who is going to
do the voting.

The result is that American political parties have weak central organizations and little central
ideology, except by consensus. A party really cannot prevent a person who disagrees with

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the majority of positions of the party or actively works against the party's aims from claiming
party membership, so long as the voters who choose to vote in the primary elections elect
that person. Once in office, an elected official may change parties simply by declaring such
intent. An elected official once in office may also act contradictory to many of his or her
party's positions (this had led to terms such as "Republican In Name Only").

At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee (See, Democratic
National Committee, Republican National Committee) that acts as the hub for much fund-
raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns. The exact composition
of these committees is different for each party, but they are made up primarily of
representatives from state parties and affiliated organizations, and others important to the
party. However, the national committees do not have the power to direct the activities of
members of the party.

Both parties also have separate campaign committees which work to elect candidates at a
specific level. The most significant of these are the Hill committees, which work to elect
candidates to each house of Congress.

State parties exist in all fifty states, though their structures differ according to state law, as
well as party rules at both the national and the state level.

Despite these weak organizations, elections are still usually portrayed as national races
between the political parties. In what is known as "presidential coattails", candidates in
presidential elections become the de facto leader of their respective party, and thus usually
bring out supporters who in turn then vote for his party's candidates for other offices. On the
other hand, federal midterm elections (where only Congress and not the president is up for
election) are usually regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's performance, with
voters either voting in or out the president's party's candidates, which in turn helps the next
session of Congress to either pass or block the president's agenda, respectively.[30][31]

General developments

Most of the Founding Fathers rejected political parties as divisive and disruptive. By the
1790s, however, most joined one of the two new parties, and by the 1830s parties had
become accepted as central to the democracy.[32] By the 1790s, the First Party System was
born. Men who held opposing views strengthened their cause by identifying and organizing
men of like mind. The followers of Alexander Hamilton, were called "Federalists"; they
favored a strong central government that would support the interests of national defense,
commerce and industry. The followers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians took up the
name "Republicans"; they preferred a decentralized agrarian republic in which the federal
government had limited power.

By 1828, the First Party System had collapsed. Two new parties emerged from the remnants
of the Jeffersonian Democracy, forming the Second Party System with the Whigs, brought to
life in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his new Democratic Party. The forces of
Jacksonian Democracy, based among urban workers, Southern poor whites, and western
farmers, dominated the era.

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In the 1860s, the issue of slavery took center stage, with disagreement in particular over the
question of whether slavery should be permitted in the country's new territories in the West.
The Whig Party straddled the issue and sank to its death after the overwhelming electoral
defeat by Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election. Ex-Whigs joined the Know
Nothings or the newly formed Republican Party. While the Know Nothing party was short-
lived, Republicans would survive the intense politics leading up to the Civil War. The primary
Republican policy was that slavery be excluded from all the territories. Just six years later,
this new party captured the presidency when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. By
then, parties were well established as the country's dominant political organizations, and
party allegiance had become an important part of most people's consciousness. Party loyalty
was passed from fathers to sons, and party activities, including spectacular campaign events,
complete with uniformed marching groups and torchlight parades, were a part of the social
life of many communities.

By the 1920s, however, this boisterous folksiness had diminished. Municipal reforms, civil
service reform, corrupt practices acts, and presidential primaries to replace the power of
politicians at national conventions had all helped to clean up politics.

Development of the two-party system in the United States:

Since the 1790s, the country has been run by two major parties. Many minor or third political
parties appear from time to time. They tend to serve a means to advocate policies that
eventually are adopted by the two major political parties. At various times the Socialist Party,
the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party for a few years had considerable local
strength, and then faded away—although in Minnesota, the Farmer–Labor Party merged into
the state's Democratic Party, which is now officially known as the Democratic–Farmer–Labor
Party. At present, the Libertarian Party is the most successful third party. New York State has
a number of additional third parties, who sometimes run their own candidates for office and
sometimes nominate the nominees of the two main parties.[36] In the District of Columbia,
the D.C. Statehood Green Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic
Party and Republican Party.

Most officials in America are elected from single-member districts and win office by beating
out their opponents in a system for determining winners called first-past-the-post; the one
who gets the plurality wins, (which is not the same thing as actually getting a majority of
votes). This encourages the two-party system; see Duverger's law. In the absence of multi-
seat congressional districts, proportional representation is impossible and third parties
cannot thrive. Although elections to the Senate elect two senators per constituency (state),
staggered terms effectively result in single-seat constituencies for elections to the Senate.

Another critical factor has been ballot access law. Originally, voters went to the polls and
publicly stated which candidate they supported. Later on, this developed into a process
whereby each political party would create its own ballot and thus the voter would put the
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Australian Secret Ballot Method, and it eventually became the national standard. The secret
ballot method ensured that the privacy of voters would be protected (hence government jobs
could no longer be awarded to loyal voters) and each state would be responsible for creating
one official ballot. The fact that state legislatures were dominated by Democrats and
Republicans provided these parties an opportunity to pass discriminatory laws against minor
political parties, yet such laws did not start to arise until the first Red Scare that hit America
after World War I. State legislatures began to enact tough laws that made it harder for minor
political parties to run candidates for office by requiring a high number of petition signatures
from citizens and decreasing the length of time that such a petition could legally be
circulated.

It should also be noted that while more often than not, party members will "toe the line" and
support their party's policies, they are free to vote against their own party and vote with the
opposition ("cross the aisle") when they please.

"In America the same political labels (Democratic and Republican) cover virtually all public
officeholders, and therefore most voters are everywhere mobilized in the name of these two
parties," says Nelson W. Polsby, professor of political science, in the book New Federalist
Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution. "Yet Democrats and Republicans are not
everywhere the same. Variations (sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant) in the 50 political
cultures of the states yield considerable differences overall in what it means to be, or to vote,
Democratic or Republican. These differences suggest that one may be justified in referring to
the American two-party system as masking something more like a hundred-party system."

U.K:
The United Kingdom is a unitary democracy governed within the framework of a
constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is the head of state and the Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by Her
Majesty's Government, on behalf of and by the consent of the Monarch, as well as by the
devolved Governments of Scotland and Wales, and the Northern Ireland Executive.
Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the
House of Commons and the House of Lords, as well as in the Scottish parliament and Welsh
and Northern Ireland assemblies. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the
legislature. The highest court is the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

The UK political system is a multi-party system. Since the 1920s, the two largest political
participation have been the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. Before the Labour
Party rose in British politics, the Liberal Party was the other major political party along with
the Conservatives. Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional
feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general
elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past
century relied upon a third party such as the Liberal Democrats to deliver a working majority
in Parliament. A Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government held office from 2010
until 2015, the first coalition since 1945.[1] The coalition ended following Parliamentary

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elections on May 7, 2015, in which the Conservative Party won an outright majority of 330
seats in the House of Commons, while their coalition partners lost all but eight seats.[2]

With the partition of Ireland, Northern Ireland received home rule in 1920, though civil unrest
meant direct rule was restored in 1972. Support for nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales
led to proposals for devolution in the 1970s though only in the 1990s did devolution actually
happen. Today, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each possess a legislature and
executive, with devolution in Northern Ireland being conditional on participation in certain all-
Ireland institutions. The United Kingdom remains responsible for non-devolved matters and,
in the case of Northern Ireland, co-operates with the Republic of Ireland.

It is a matter of dispute as to whether increased autonomy and devolution of executive and

legislative powers has contributed to the increase in support for independence. The principal
pro-independence party, the Scottish National Party, became a minority government in 2007
and then went on to win an overall majority of MSPs at the 2011 Scottish parliament
elections and forms the Scottish Government administration. A 2014 referendum on
independence led to a rejection of the proposal, but with 45% voting to secede. In Northern
Ireland, the largest Pro-Belfast Agreement party, Sinn Féin, not only advocates Northern
Ireland's unification with the Republic of Ireland, but also abstains from taking their elected
seats in the Westminster government, as this would entail taking a pledge of allegiance to the
British monarch.

The constitution of the United Kingdom is uncodified, being made up of constitutional

conventions, statutes and other elements such as EU law. This system of government, known
as the Westminster system, has been adopted by other countries, especially those that were
formerly parts of the British Empire.

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