I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: 1776 Constitution of Virginia, 1798 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, HG Wells the Rights of Man, The Atlantic Declaration, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Freedom of Religion, 1786 Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1798 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and The Cairo Declaration.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Women's’ Organisations, Male Values/Masculinity, An Glor Gafa - the Captive Voice - in 1992, Religious and Political Iconography, The Peace People, Deirdre Heenan, The Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, Monica McWilliams, leader of the NIWC, NIWC Disbanded in 2006, Roísin McDonough and Seamus Mallon (SDLP).
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Historical Roots of Distinctive Political Economy of Welfare States, Past Decisions, Big or Small, Shape Development of Mixed Economies of Welfare
Determines How they Can and Do Develop as well as Historical Dynamics and Current State-of-Play.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Key Characteristics of the Scandinavian Model,
Origins, Development and Variants of Scandinavian Model, Social Equality Versus Social Control
Challenges to the Scandinavian Welfare State and Challenges to EA’s Characterisation.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: “Unsettling” of Germany’s Welfare Settlement as well as
Retrenchment, Re-Unification and Renegotiation of Welfare.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Sweden: EA’s Archetypical Social Democratic Welfare Regime, Model Nation Not Just Model Welfare State? and But Much Reformed: Still Social Democratic?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Evolution of the Welfare Settlement in America after 1975 and Welfare Reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and their Consequences.
Comprehensive Revision Notes: The Political Spectrum, Consensus Politics vs Adversary Politics, Functions and Features of Political Parties, Labour, Conservatives and Democracy.
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 Revision Notes that Cover: Terminology, Functions of Parliament, Select Committees, Constituent/Party Representation, Representativeness of Parliament, Effectiveness, Scrutiny, Parliamentary Legitimacy, House of Lords, House of Lords Reform, House of Lords Reform Evaluation, House of Lords Reform Options, House of Commons Reform, the Impact of EU Membership in Parliament, Government and Parliament, Ways in Which Parliament Can Control the Government and Parliament Defying the Will of the Government.
Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Terminology, Functions and Features of the UK Constitution, Sources of the UK Constitution, Codified/Uncodified Constitution, Should the UK Reform its Constitution? Branches of UK Government, Parliamentary Sovereignty and Constitutional Reforms (Labour’s Post-1997 Reforms).
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is the State? Features of the State, the Territorial Dimension, Liberalism's Perspective, Conservative/Tory Perspective, Marxism's Perspective, Social Democratic Perspective, New Right Perspective, Anarchism, Pluralism and Feminist Perspective.
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: 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: 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: 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.