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Exams & course guides
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Introduction to AS Politics
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Course guide AS Politics
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Course guide A2 Politics
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Voting behaviour
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Political culture - reading activities
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Political culture
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Politics, the social context - gender
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Politics, the social context - class
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Poitics, the social context - ethnicity
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Race & ethnicicty - statistics
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Introduction to voting behaviour
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Key words associated with voting behaviour
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Five models of voting behaviour
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Social structures model
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Party identification model
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Rational choice model
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Rational choice model -scales chart
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Two examples of issue-based voting
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Two examples of issue-
 
   
Rational choice model - table
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Dominant ideology model
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Dominant ideology model - newspaper task
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How important is the influence of the media?
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Voting context model - opinion polls
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Voting context model - voting apathy
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Voting context model - apathy solutions task
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Voting context - reading activity
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Tactical & protest voting - table with 'magic answers'
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Voting behaviour - market place task & writing frame
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Elections
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Guide to the 2001 General Election
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Guide to the 2005 general election- task sheet
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Electoral systems & reform
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Electoral systems & reform - reading activities
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Alternative Electoral Systems
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Alternative Electoral Systems - card sort
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BBC article on electoral reform (May 2005)
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Bingo - electoral terms
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Electoral reform since 1997
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Party funding - BBC article (Oct. 2006)
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House of Commons
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House of Commons - reading actvities
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Legislative process
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Functions of House of Commons
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How is the business of Parliament organised?
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Parliamentary questions
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Functions of House of Commons - reading actvitiy based on web article
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Select Committees
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Standing Committees
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Role of the Speaker
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Betty Boothroyd (former Commons Speaker)
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How representative are MPs?
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How accountable are MPs?
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House of Lords
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House of Lords - reading activities
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Composition & function
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Speaker for House of Lords
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Wakeham report
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Reform of House of Lords
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Cash for honours
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House of Lords - discussion activity
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Reform of the House of Lords
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Parliamentary reform
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Parliamentary reform (Nolan, Wakeham etc.)
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Parliamentary reform - teachers' notes
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Wakeham report
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Europe
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The history of the development of the EU
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The key institutions of the EU
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European Parliament - BBC news article
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European institutions - task sheet
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Local government
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Local government
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Local government elections 2007 - reading activity
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Comparison of the role of MP & councillor
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Devolution
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Devolution in Scotland and Wales
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Northern Ireland Assembly
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Comparison of devolved assemblies
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Constitution
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What are the sources of the UK constitution?
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The ever-changing constitution
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Rule of Law
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Reform of the UK constitution
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Reform of the constitution - discussion task
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Constitutional reform - reading task
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Political Parties
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From Old Labour to New Labour
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From Thatcher to Cameron
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How is the Conservative party organised ?
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Introduction to the Liberal Democrats
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Small parties in British politics
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Sources of party funding
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Candidate selection for the main parties
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Female MPs news article
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The importance of party spin doctors
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Pressure Groups
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What are pressure groups ?
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Pressure groups internet research task
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Prime Minister and Cabinet
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The powers of the Prime Minister
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News article on Tony Blair's leadership style
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The Role of Ministers
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Civil Service and Judiciary
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The Civil Service
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Civil servants and special advisors
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A2 Politics Resources
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The US and UK constitutions compared
 
   
The US constitution
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The US and UK constitutions
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Notes comparing the US and UK constitutions
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Interpretive amendments to the US constitution
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The federal system in the USA
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Freedom of information in the USA and UK
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Notes on US federalism
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Freedom of information in the UK
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Freedom of information and cabinet documents in the UK
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Protection of rights in the USA
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Protection of rights in the UK
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Role of the monarchy in the British Constitution
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Development of the UK constitution timeline
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Sources of the British constitution
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US and UK judicaries comapred
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Constitutions and judicaries
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Summary chart of US Supreme Court cases
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Powers of the Supreme Court judges
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The role of the Supreme Court diagram
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The current Supreme Court justices (2007)
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US Supreme Court and the death penalty
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US Supreme Court and abortion - Roe v Wade case
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Introduction to the US Supreme Court
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Notes on the UK judicary
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The Warren, Burger and Rehnquist courts compared
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Legacy of Chief Justice William Rehnquist
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The Uk judicary
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The role of the UK judges
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The role of the Lord Chancellor
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Law Lords rule on the rights of terrorist suspects
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Who are the Law Lords ?
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Past exam questions on judicaries
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US and UK executives compared
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Summary of US presidents since 1945
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How powerful are US presidents
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Powers of the US President
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Notes comparing the US and UK executives
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Notes on the US cabinet system
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Notes on the UK cabinet system
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The relationship between the executive and the legislature
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The US federal bureaucracy
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Who is more powerful: the US president or the UK prime minister ?
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The EXOP
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Iron triangles
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Past exam questions on executives
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US and UK legislatures compared
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How laws are made in the UK
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The US congress and the UK parliament research task
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Brief comparison of the US and Uk legislatures
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Bi-cameralism
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Composition of congress statistics
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Brief comparison of congressional and parliamentary committees
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Past exam questions on legislatures
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