Useful Links
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Link to the Politics Teacher site which contains a useful and
expanding set of resources including teaching notes, lesson plans, video clips and more on all aspects of UK Government and Politics
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Link to AQA AS and A2 Government and Politics
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Link
to Edexcel AS and A2 Government and Politics
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Link to
OCR AS and A2 Government and Politics
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Link to Learning and Teaching Scotland tutor resources and student exercises for
Scottish Intermediate and Higher Politics courses
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Click here and then follow the
relevant link for a very useful sample chapter from Introducing Politics
for AS by Peter Holmes on The Executive: Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Link to very
useful sample Chapters from Essentials of British Politics by Andrew
Heywood on Pressure Groups and on the Constitution
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Click
here and then follow the link on the right hand side of the page
or the link at the bottom of the page for the companion site for
Essentials of British Politics by Andrew Heywood
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Click here for BBC
News Special Reports with an archive of reports reaching back to
1998.
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Click here for
BBC Political Review of the Year
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Click here
for BBC coverage of David Cameron in 2010
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Click here for Steve Richard's Radio 4 Series on
the Premiership of Gordon Brown
NEW
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Click here
for BBC coverage of Ed Miliband in 2010
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Click here for
The Coalition 2010-2011: [1] [BBC]
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The Coalition
2010-2011: [2] [BBC]
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Click here for recent BBC information
on the Liberal Democrats NEW
- Click here
for recent BBC information on Private Member's Bills
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Click here for student resources designed to accompany the excellent
Politics UK textbook. Resources include revision notes and comprehensive
updates. NEW
- Click here for Bill Jones' Blog to keep up to date with UK Politics
on a more or less daily basis. NEW
- Click here
for a weekly series of Guardian Podcasts on UK Politics each of which
lasts for about 25 minutes. The series currently [September 2011]
contains about 265 programmes. NEW
- Click here for a recent [2011] very detailed
briefing paper on the House of Lords and the case for its reform
by Dr. Alan Renwick for the
Political Studies Association. NEW.
- Click here for Democratic Audit: visit the publications
section for detailed information on several aspects of UK Politics.
NEW
- Click here
for 3 useful BBC video clips on David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed
Miliband in 2011 NEW
Please note also that NEW
links to Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4 documentaries and Guardian articles on the Blair -Brown
years have been listed at the bottom of this page.
Teaching Notes
Introduction
AS Government
and Politics: Introduction
The State :
Power, Authority and Coercion
The Nature of
Democracy
Citizen
Participation in Representative Democracies
Trends in
UK Political
Participation [From Democratic Audit]
The Occupy Movement [External links]
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Elections, Electoral Systems and Voting
Behaviour
Representative
Democracy and Elections
Referenda
Democracy in Recent Years [from tutor2u]
FPTP and PR
Is First Past the Post Working
? [From Democratic Audit]
Electoral
Results under Different Electoral Systems
*Link to Electoral Reform Society Publications*
Link to BBC on
Proposed Alternative Vote Referendum
*Link
to BBC on N. Ireland Elections*
*Link to BBC on
London Mayor Elections*
Voting Behaviour in the UK
The UK General Election of 2010
NEWEST
Pressure Groups and Political Parties
Analysing
Pressure Groups
Democracy and Pressure Groups
Factors affecting
the Power of Pressure Groups
Pressure
Politics [Article by Wyn Grant]
Functions of Political Parties
Liberalism and the Liberal Democrats
NEWEST
The Conservative-Liberal
Democrat Coalition [External links only]
The Conservatives
in 2011 [From the BBC]
The Liberal
Democrats in 2011 [From the BBC]
The Labour Party in
2011 [From the BBC]
The Prime Minister and the Cabinet
The Prime
Minister
The Cabinet
Some dimensions of Prime
Ministerial Power [unfinished]
The Deal [Channel 4 Dramatised
Documentary on the Relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown]
The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair
[Andrew Rawnsley's Documentary for Channel 4]
Blair, Brown and the Management of No.10 [ Article by John Rentoul from
"The Hidden Wiring"]
Andrew Rawnsley's Three Part
Assessment of the Premiership of Tony Blair [From The Guardian]
Click here for Steve Richard's Radio 4 Series on
the Premiership of Gordon Brown
Core
Executive and British Presidency: A Note
Individual
Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Cabinet Responsibility: A Note
Gresham's College Politics Lectures [containing a series on British
Prime Ministers] NEW
How
Coalition Government Works {Detailed Paper from The Constitution Unit of
London University] NEW
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