Politics and participation - AQA GCSE Citizenship Studies quiz

In direct democracy people vote on decisions themselves; in representative democracy they elect representatives to decide

There is no real difference between the two of them at all, as both of them simply mean ordinary people taking part in elections

Direct democracy is a system that is only ever used inside dictatorships and never in any free country

Representative democracy is the system where every single citizen votes directly on every new law

The monarch personally makes all of the laws by themselves and holds complete, total control over the whole of the country

The monarch is head of state with limited, mainly ceremonial powers while an elected government holds real power

There is no monarch at all and the country is run only by an elected president instead

The monarch is chosen and elected by the people in a vote held every few years

The House of Lords, which is appointed

The Cabinet of senior ministers

The House of Commons

The Supreme Court of the UK

It must first be approved by the whole country in a national referendum

It must simply be signed off by the Prime Minister on their own

It must be approved by every one of the local councils across the country

It must pass through both Houses and receive Royal Assent

To scrutinise and challenge the government and offer an alternative

To run all of the government departments and carry out day to day decisions

To choose and appoint the Prime Minister at the start of each new term

To write and pass every single one of the new laws for the country

The winning candidate must always win more than half of all of the votes cast

The candidate with the most votes wins, even without a majority

Seats are shared out in direct proportion to the share of votes received

The winner is chosen by Parliament rather than by the voters in the constituency

It is far too complicated for most ordinary voters to understand how it works

It always produces a coalition government made up of several different parties

It is not proportional, so many votes are wasted and smaller parties win few seats

It prevents any single party from ever being able to form a government fully on its own

Granting full and complete independence to Scotland so it leaves the UK altogether

Abolishing every one of the local councils and running all services from London

Handing all of the political power in the whole of the country over to the monarch and the rest of the royal family

The transfer of some powers from the UK Parliament to bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Refuse collection

Defence

Foreign affairs

National taxation

Ignoring the news and avoiding all current affairs completely

Joining a pressure group

Refusing to pay any of the tax that is legally owed

Leaving the country to go and live somewhere else

Income tax paid on wages

National Insurance contributions

Value Added Tax (VAT)

Corporation tax on profits

Because every single one of the public services happens to cost the government exactly the same amount of money each year

Because Parliament is not allowed to have any say at all over how public money is spent

Because public services are completely free to provide and so cost the government nothing at all

Because the money raised through tax is limited, so spending more on one area means less elsewhere or higher taxes