UK

- The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.

- The Queen Elizabeth II is not the head of goverment, but she is the head of state.
- Most of the decisions about how the government is run makes the Prime Minister.
- Scotland is the most politically independent country.
- The Scottish National Party have 56 seats in the House of Commons and the Scottish
Government is responsible for running day-to-day matters in Scotland such as
education, transport, health…
- Wales has the Welsh Governemtn and the National Assembly for Wales, which are in
charge of things like making laws for Wales and agreeing Welsh taxes.
- At this moment Northern Ireland does not have a sitting government but Northern
Ireland does have the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly which has powers
closer to those already devolved to Scotland.
- England is the most powerful country od the four and the British Government works
for the Queen.
- The UK’s government has three basic types of power: legislative, executive, and
judiciary.
- People vote in elections for Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent them. The
party that gets the most seats in Parliament forms the Government.

USA
- The United States is a representative federal democracy driven by elections in which
citizens’ and lobbyists’ diverse interests compete.
- The U.S. federal government is composed of three distinct branches—legislative,
executive, and judicial—whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the
Congress, the President, and the federal courts, including the Supreme Court,
respectively.
- With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties:
Democrats and Republicans.
- Typically, a political party is a political organization seeking to influence government
policy by nominating its own select candidates to hold seats in political office, via the
process of electoral campaigning.
- In two-party systems, such as in Jamaica and Ghana, the two political parties
dominate to such an extent that electoral success under the banner of any other
party is virtually impossible.
- Voter turnout depends on socioeconomic factors such as education, income, gender,
age, and race.
- Lobbying describes paid activity in which special interest groups argue for specific
legislation in decision-making bodies.
- Collectively, African Americans are more involved in the American political process
than other minority groups.
- Hispanics have the ability to be an influential force in politics, a fact that is especially
true in areas with high Hispanic populations.
- The USA has a president.