Politics resouces

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Free Politics resources for teachers and students ........................................

Exams & course guides	File type

Introduction to AS Politics	PowerPoint

Course guide AS Politics	Word
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Course guide A2 Politics	Word

Voting behaviour	File type

Political culture - reading activities	Word

Political culture	PowerPoint

Politics, the social context - gender	PowerPoint

Politics, the social context - class	PowerPoint

Poitics, the social context - ethnicity	PowerPoint

Race & ethnicicty - statistics	Word

Introduction to voting behaviour	PowerPoint

Key words associated with voting behaviour	Word

Five models of voting behaviour	PowerPoint

Social structures model	PowerPoint

Party identification model	PowerPoint

Rational choice model	PowerPoint

Rational choice model -scales chart	Word

Two examples of issue-based voting	Word

Two examples of issue-

Rational choice model - table	Word

Dominant ideology model	PowerPoint

Dominant ideology model - newspaper task	Word

How important is the influence of the media?	PowerPoint

Voting context model - opinion polls	PowerPoint

Voting context model - voting apathy	PowerPoint

Voting context model - apathy solutions task	Word

Voting context - reading activity	Word

Tactical & protest voting - table with 'magic answers'	Word

Voting behaviour - market place task & writing frame	Word

Elections	File type
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Guide to the 2001 General Election	Word

Guide to the 2005 general election- task sheet	Word
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Electoral systems & reform	File type

Electoral systems & reform - reading activities	Word

Alternative Electoral Systems	Word

Alternative Electoral Systems - card sort	Word

BBC article on electoral reform (May 2005)	Word

Bingo - electoral terms	PowerPoint

Electoral reform since 1997	PowerPoint
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Party funding - BBC article (Oct. 2006)	Word

House of Commons	File type
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House of Commons - reading actvities	Word

Legislative process	PowerPoint

Functions of House of Commons	PowerPoint

How is the business of Parliament organised?	PowerPoint

Parliamentary questions	Power Point

Functions of House of Commons - reading actvitiy based on web article	Word

Select Committees	Word

Standing Committees	Word
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Role of the Speaker	Word

Betty Boothroyd (former Commons Speaker)	Word
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How representative are MPs?	PowerPoint

How accountable are MPs?	PowerPoint

House of Lords	File type
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House of Lords - reading activities	Word

Composition & function	PowerPoint
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Speaker for House of Lords	Word

Wakeham report	Word

Reform of House of Lords	Word

Cash for honours	Word

House of Lords - discussion activity	Word

Reform of the House of Lords	PowerPoint

Parliamentary reform	File type
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Parliamentary reform (Nolan, Wakeham etc.)	Powerpoint

Parliamentary reform - teachers' notes	Word

Wakeham report	Word
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Europe	File type
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The history of the development of the EU	PowerPoint

The key institutions of the EU	PowerPoint

European Parliament - BBC news article	Word

European institutions - task sheet	Word
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Local government	File type
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Local government	PowerPoint

Local government elections 2007 - reading activity	Word

Comparison of the role of MP & councillor	Word
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Devolution	File type
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Devolution in Scotland and Wales	PowerPoint

Northern Ireland Assembly	PowerPoint

Comparison of devolved assemblies	Word
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Constitution	File type
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What are the sources of the UK constitution?	PowerPoint

The ever-changing constitution	PowerPoint

Rule of Law	PowerPoint

Reform of the UK constitution	Word

Reform of the constitution - discussion task	Word
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Constitutional reform - reading task	Word

Political Parties	File type

From Old Labour to New Labour	Powerpoint

From Thatcher to Cameron	Powerpoint

How is the Conservative party organised ?	Powerpoint

Introduction to the Liberal Democrats	Powerpoint

Small parties in British politics	Powerpoint

Sources of party funding	Word

Candidate selection for the main parties	Word

Female MPs news article	Word

The importance of party spin doctors	Word

Pressure Groups	File type

What are pressure groups ?	Powerpoint

Pressure groups internet research task	Word

Prime Minister and Cabinet	File type

The powers of the Prime Minister	Powerpoint

News article on Tony Blair's leadership style	Word

The Role of Ministers	Powerpoint

Civil Service and Judiciary	File type

The Civil Service	Powerpoint

Civil servants and special advisors	Word

A2 Politics Resources	File type

The US and UK constitutions compared

The US constitution	Powerpoint

The US and UK constitutions	Powerpoint

Notes comparing the US and UK constitutions	Word

Interpretive amendments to the US constitution	Word

The federal system in the USA	Powerpoint

Freedom of information in the USA and UK	Powerpoint

Notes on US federalism	Word

Freedom of information in the UK	Word

Freedom of information and cabinet documents in the UK	Word

Protection of rights in the USA	Powerpoint

Protection of rights in the UK	Powerpoint

Role of the monarchy in the British Constitution	Powerpoint

Development of the UK constitution timeline	Powerpoint

Sources of the British constitution	Powerpoint


US and UK judicaries comapred	File type

Constitutions and judicaries	Word

Summary chart of US Supreme Court cases	Word

Powers of the Supreme Court judges	Word

The role of the Supreme Court diagram	Word

The current Supreme Court justices (2007)	Word

US Supreme Court and the death penalty	Word

US Supreme Court and abortion - Roe v Wade case	Word

Introduction to the US Supreme Court	Powerpoint

Notes on the UK judicary	Powerpoint

The Warren, Burger and Rehnquist courts compared	Powerpoint

Legacy of Chief Justice William Rehnquist	Word

The Uk judicary	Word

The role of the UK judges	Word

The role of the Lord Chancellor	Word

Law Lords rule on the rights of terrorist suspects	Word

Who are the Law Lords ?	Word

Past exam questions on judicaries	Word

US and UK executives compared	File type

Summary of US presidents since 1945	Powerpoint

How powerful are US presidents	Powerpoint

Powers of the US President	Powerpoint

Notes comparing the US and UK executives	Word

Notes on the US cabinet system	Word

Notes on the UK cabinet system	Word

The relationship between the executive and the legislature	Powerpoint

The US federal bureaucracy	Powerpoint

Who is more powerful: the US president or the UK prime minister ?	Word

The EXOP	Powerpoint

Iron triangles	Word

Past exam questions on executives	Word

US and UK legislatures compared	File type

How laws are made in the UK	Word

The US congress and the UK parliament research task	Word

Brief comparison of the US and Uk legislatures	Powerpoint

Bi-cameralism	Powerpoint

Composition of congress statistics	Powerpoint

Brief comparison of congressional and parliamentary committees	Powerpoint

Past exam questions on legislatures	Word