Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What impression does this give of the Civil Service? The Classic Model of the Civil Service, the Lack of Change in the Civil Service 1850-1988, Main Changes to the Civil Service Over Recent Decades, Structural change followed the Ibbs Report of the late 1980s, Next Steps Agencies, Civil Service Controversies Since the 1980s, New Labour 1997-2010, Labour’s Plethora of new delivery vehicles, Reduced Civil Service, Politicisation? Why use special advisers? The controversies, Are special advisers neutral civil servants? What did the Conservatives promise? What did the Con-Lib Dem coalition do? the Civil Service under the Coalition Government and is the Civil Service fit for purpose?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Commons in Context: Historical Evolution and Constitutional Position, the Functions of the Commons and the Roles of MPs, Key controversies: Payroll Vote, Pay, Public Schools, Patriarchy, House of Commons Reform, Applying Theories of the State.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Home Rule Bills for Ireland, the Growth of Unionism, the Growth of Nationalism, Government of Ireland Act, Devolution after 1920, Differing Perspectives on the devolved Unionist Government from 1920, the 1937 Irish Free State Constitution Deal, How Realistic Were Unionist Fears? Excuse or Explanation for Discrimination? to What Extent were Nationalists to Blame? Self-Exclusion from Devolved Government, Possibilities for the Reform of Devolved Government by the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, the Inability of the Devolved Government to Adequately Reform, a Difficult-to-Reform Polity, the British Response to the Problems of the Unionist Devolved Government in 1969, British Policy Initiatives in Northern Ireland since 1969, the growing intra-unionist challenge to the devolved Unionist Government, the end of the Devolved Unionist government, UK Government Green Paper 1972, Sunningdale Agreement 1973, New Devolution Proposed via the UK Government’s 1973 White Paper that was later agreed at Sunningdale, December 1973, Unionist Mistrust of the SDLP and the Council of Ireland, Implementing Devolved Power Sharing: the Collapse of Support and the Collapse of Devolved Power Sharing, May 1974.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Responses to the Collapse of Devolved Power Sharing in 1974, British Government Policy after the Collapse of Devolution, Rolling Devolution 1982-86, The Climax of the Movement away from Devolved Power Sharing: the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: Unionist Perspectives, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: non-Unionist Perspectives, the Climax of the Movement away from Devolved Power Sharing: the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: Unionist Perspectives, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: non-Unionist Perspectives, Rolling Devolution 1982-86, the Road to the Good Friday Agreement and Devolution, the Good Friday Agreement 1998,The Referenda on the Good Friday Agreement May 1998, Voting by Religion in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum in Northern Ireland, Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, June 1998: Unionists, Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, June 1998: Nationalist and ‘Other’ Parties (all pro-Agreement), the Executive and Assembly Committees and Issues with the GFA.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: How has it arisen and what is it? the McKay Commission, English Devolution Options, the Northern Powerhouse, 2017 Elected Mayors and Other Issues: Cornwall and Yorkshire.

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 Presentation that Covers: Tracing Europe’s Left and Right, A revolutionary history, Ideologies: The rise of the‘isms’, Nationalism in European politics and Political systems: A Europe of many types? - From liberal democracies to ‘people’s democracies’ and Legacies.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Westphalia to the ‘Third Wave’, Sovereignty: What is it? Anachronistic? Pressure from Above and Below: the Globalisation Thesis, Pressure from within: Public Trust, Political Parties, Electoral Systems and Power, Performance and Legitimacy: Collapse or Change?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The Nature of the Sub-National State, the Changing Structure, Functions and Status of Local Government and English Regionalism: the Dog that Didn’t Bark?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Why Study Devolution? What is Devolution? Key Concepts and Ideology and Future of Politics in the UK?

A Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Views on the Scottish Parliament, Views of the Scottish Parliament and Devolution, the Scotland Act 1998, Division of Responsibilities (Schedule 5 of Scotland Act 1998), West Lothian Problem’ Not Addressed, the Scottish Parliament, First Minister, and Executive, First Ministers, Principles Upon which the Scottish Parliament was Supposed to be Based, Implementation of Principles, The Critique of the Application of the Democratic Parliamentary Principles, Electing the Scottish Parliament: the Additional Member System, Disadvantages of the Additional Member System, The current Scottish Parliament 2011, Election Results and Proportionality, Legislation Passed by the Scottish Parliament, Problems Post-Devolution, Revenue & Tax-Raising Power, Scottish Economic Power, Calman Commission 2009, ‘Serving Scotland Better’, the Smith Commission 2014 and Devo-Max Scottish Parliament?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Symptoms of Disengagement and Anti-Politics, Explanations of Disengagement and Possible Solutions.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Church and State in Post-Partition Ireland, Church and State in Post-Partition Ireland: Education, 1922 Constitution, 1937 Constitution, the Irish Constitution 2004 and Protestant Minority.

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: What is the Judiciary? UK Legal System, the Judiciary & the Westminster Model, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Judicial Independence, the Way Things Used to Be, Challenges to the Traditional Balance, Judges Vs Home Secretaries, Strength of Judicial Review in 1990s, the Growing Political Role of the UK Judiciary: Key Factors, European Communities Act, 1972, Judicial Review, Human Rights Act, 1998, Human Rights Act, Articles 2-18, Human Rights Act, 1998, the Impact of Devolution, Constitutional Reform Act, 2005 and Is this a Stable Arrangement?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Westminster Model in Context, Westminster Model Under Challenge? and Theories of the State as well as their Application to UK Political Institutions.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Idea of a ‘Nation', What Form does a Nation Take? Johann Gottfried Herder, Modernisation Strategy, Self-Affirmation, Nations as Political Communities, Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, Nationalism and Threats to the Nation-State.

Comprehensive Presentation that includes: What Do We Mean By Democracy in Europe?- Definitions, Types, Models, Problems – what problems? Democratic Europe Today – a mixed picture, Generic Measures of Democracy, Freedom House; the Democracy Barometer, Establishing criteria - What Do We Want to Measure? and Analysing European Political Systems.