Living and Participating in a Democracy overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Government and Politics quiz

Electing an MP to the House of Commons

A referendum such as the 2016 EU vote

A select committee inquiry

Appointing a peer to the House of Lords

Citizens decide every issue by referendum

Power is held permanently by unelected officials

Citizens elect representatives to decide and be held accountable

Only pressure groups make decisions

Falling turnout in some local elections

Long-term decline in party membership

High turnout at major referendums and large pressure group membership

A fall in the number of registered voters

An absolute majority of all votes cast

The most votes in the constituency (a plurality)

More than half the votes in the whole country

A two-thirds supermajority

First-past-the-post only

The single transferable vote

The supplementary vote

The additional member system

Social class and partisanship

The events of the campaign

The state of the economy this year

A televised leaders' debate

A rise in lifelong loyalty to one party

The weakening of voters' long-standing attachment to a party

The banning of political parties

The merger of two major parties

Hearing legal appeals

Setting interest rates

Policy formulation through manifestos

Issuing declarations of incompatibility

The Green Party

Plaid Cymru

The Co-operative Party

Sinn Fein

Insider groups have regular access to and consultation with government

Insider groups are always larger in membership

Outsider groups are always wealthier

Outsider groups always seek to form a government

The elitist critique

The pluralist view

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty

The Salisbury convention

A pressure group always wins seats in Parliament

A pressure group seeks to influence policy without seeking to govern

A pressure group must be funded by the state

A pressure group cannot use the media

Highly proportional results that favour small parties

Permanent coalition governments

A tendency to produce single-party majority governments

The abolition of constituencies

It forces taxpayers to fund parties they oppose

It reduces reliance on wealthy donors and the risk of undue influence

It guarantees higher election turnout

It abolishes the need for manifestos