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Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Terminology, Characteristics of Government, Roles of the Prime Minister, How Does the PM Select Ministers? Sources of PM Power, Limitations on Prime-Ministerial Power, To What Extent have UK Prime Ministers Become More ‘Presidential’? Functions of Cabinet, Changes Under the Current Coalition, Collective Responsibility, Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Are British Prime Ministers as Powerful as is Sometimes Claimed? Prime Ministerial Power and Do We Have a Core Executive?

Comprehensive Presentation that covers: Pressure Groups and Power, What is Pluralism? Robert A Dahl’s Work on Power Structures and Pluralist Democracy, Pluralists and Democracy, Pluralists and the State, Evidence for the Pluralist View, Problems with Pluralism, Criticism of the Pluralist Position, What is Elitism? Is this Democratic? So Where is the Power? The Distinction Between Pluralism and Elitism, What Determines the Success of Pressure Groups, Functions of Pressure Groups, Mobilise Public Opinion, Example of the Mobilisation of Public Opinion, Education, Example of the Educative Role, Encourage Participation, Pluralism and Diversity, Example of Encouraging Participation, Single Issues, Example of Single Issue, Redress of Grievance, Example of Redress of Grievance, Representation of Minorities, Example of Representation of Minorities, Expert Knowledge, Example of Expert Knowledge, Public Policy, Example of Public Policy, Check and Balance to the Power of Executive Government and Example of Check and Balance.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Socialism Definitions, Socialism and Human Nature, Socialist Values, Social Class, Class Conflict, Socialism vs. Capitalism, Equality, Key Concepts of Socialism, Social Justice, Problems with Social Justice, Class Conflict, Collectivism, State Socialism, Why Utopia Failed, Social History (1640-1740), Social History (1740-1830), Charles and Robert, Karl Marx, Marxism, Marx’s Three Categories, Orthodox Marxism, Modern Marxism, Modern Marxism, Revisionism, Revolution Not Evolution, How Socialism Works, Types of Socialism, Revolutionary Socialism, Evolutionary Revolutionary Socialism, Fabians, Democratic Socialists as well as Capitalism and Socialism.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The Lords in Context: Historical Evolution; Changing Constitutional Position, the Functions of the Lords, Current Membership, House of Lords Reform, Strength / Weakness of Current and Possible Systems.

Comprehensive Presentation that covers: the Process of Devolution in the United Kingdom, how Power has Decentralised from Westminster and Transitioned to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the English Question as well as the Post-Devolutionary Environment such as the Rise of the SNP and the Story of Welsh Nationalism which differs from Scotland.

Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Types of Pressure Groups, Functions and Features of Pressure Groups, Pressure Groups and Political Parties, Methods and Tactics of Pressure Groups, Factors affecting Pressure Group Success, Do Pressure Groups Enhance Democracy? Do Pressure Groups Strengthen Pluralist Democracy? Have Pressure Groups Become More Powerful in Recent Years?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: FPTP – First Past The Post, SV - Supplementary Vote, Closed List, STV - Single Transferable Vote and AMS – Additional Members System.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Executive, the Development of the Executive: from Disorder to Order, the Prime Minister, Prime Ministers since 1945, Principle Powers of the Prime Minster, the PM’s International Role, Strong and Weak Prime Minsters, What Makes a Successful PM? Who did MPs vote ‘best modern Prime Minister’? the Cabinet, the Cabinet: Collective Responsibility, Control at the Centre, Rise of a British Presidency? the Cabinet Today, Cabinet’s Educational Background and Gender, Elitism, Key Propositions of Classical Elitist Perspective, Who are ‘the elite’? the ‘Political Formulation’ of the Ruling Class, Class Background of British Cabinets: 1970-2007, Privately Educated MPs, Representation in Parliament of Female MPs and Feminist Perspective.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Post Cold War World, 9/11 and the ‘War on Terror’, Rise of BRICs, The Broadening Concept of Security and Role of Globalisation and Focus on Terrorism.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Devolved Chaos 1999-2002, Unionist Division over the GFA, The Northern Ireland Assembly Elections November 2003, DUP-UUP Electoral Competition 1989-2010, Sinn Fein-SDLP Electoral Competition 1989-2007, St. Andrews Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly 2007, Voting System, the Executive, Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Continuing Issues in Northern Ireland: Parades, Representation, Polarisation, Victims, the Economy, and Flags, Devolution Progress 2007-15, Attitudes to Devolved Power Sharing 2015 and Satisfaction with Devolved Power Sharing, by Party Supported, 2011. The Presentation includes Polling Data, Electoral Results, and Graphs.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Myth, Identity and the EU, Analysing Regionalism, Early European Integration, ECSC-EC, First Enlargements, Empire by Invitation?, Stagnation to Dynamism (and back), Single European Act, German Reunification and Eastern Enlargement, EU as International Actor and Soft/Hard Power.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Definition, Purpose, Origins, Features: parliamentary sovereignty, uncodified, unitary, fusion of powers and flexible as well as Advantages and Disadvantages of the UK Constitutions.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Democratic Deficit for Wales, ‘Labourland’ and 1979 referendum, ‘Quangoland’: The Thatcher Years, the Impact of Welsh Nationalism and the 1997 Election and Referendum Campaign.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Origins of Conservatism, Theological Conservatives, Paternalism, Traditional Values, All In This Together? Prag-Grenade, Conservatism/Human Nature, Enlightenment, Pessimistic Conservatism, Tory Boy, Edmund Burke - Traditionalism, Robert Peel, Tamworth Manifesto, Revolutionary Industrialism, The Split, Paternal Conservativism – One Nation, Disraeli, After Disraeli's Death, How Successful Was One Nation Conservatism? Progressive Conservatism, New Right, Neo-Conservatism, Neo Conservatism – George Bush, Neo-Economics, Cultural Ignorance, Neo Liberalism, Neo Liberalism – Margaret Thatcher, Combative Conservatism, Christian Democrats and Nationalists, Neo-Nazi Mania, Conservativism Evolution, Society Does Not Exist? Individualism, Property Ownership, No Ideology, The Empiricism Sceptics and Key Quotes.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is Europe? European Political Traditions, Assessing the State of Democracy in Europe Today, Globalization and the Crisis of the Nation State in Europe, the Decline of Political Parties, Power and the Contemporary European State, Democracy and the EU, Regionalism and European integration, Immigration, Europe and the Rise of the Far Right and Europe and the World.

Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Functions and Features of Elections, Electoral Systems, Single Party vs Multiparty Systems and Electoral Reform.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is regionalism? Motivations for regionalism, A very brief history of the EU, The EU institutions and Theories of European Integration.