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: Symptoms of Disengagement and Anti-Politics, Explanations of Disengagement and Possible Solutions.

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: 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: 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: 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 Process of Devolution in the United Kingdom, how Power has Decentralised from Westminster and Transitioned to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the English Question as well as the Post-Devolutionary Environment such as the Rise of the SNP and the Story of Welsh Nationalism which differs from Scotland.

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.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Secret of Modern Britain is there is no Power Anywhere, Definitions: The State, Why is the State Important? Power and the State: Max Weber, Authority-Legitimate Power, the British State, the Triumph of Parliamentary over Royal Power, 18th Century, Urbanisation: 19th Century, Role of the State, Post WWII - State intervention, the British Political Tradition Greenleaf (1983), Westminster Model, Sovereignty, Core Executive, Executive – Legislature Relations, Electoral System, Party System, Judiciary, Territorial Politics, Model of Democracy? Challenges to the Westminster Model, New Labour Constitutional Reform, From Government to Governance and Models of Distribution of Power.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Does the EU Have a Foreign Policy, and How Effective is it? How does the EU Deal with its Neighbours? What Sort of Identity Does the EU Have on the World Stage? and Is the EU in Crisis, Where is It Heading?

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Europeanisation and Integration, Party Politics, Left, Right, and Multiculturalism, Explaining Party Performance, Populism, Public Backlash or Political Opportunism? The Far Right - a Clear and Present Danger?

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: Defining the EU’s Democratic Deficit, The EU Institutions, Arguments for and Against the Existence of a Democratic Deficit and Moves to make the EU more Democratic.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Does the EU have a Foreign Policy, and How Effective is it? How does the EU Deal with its Neighbours? What Sort of Identity does the EU have on the World Stage? and Is the EU in Crisis, where is it Heading?

Comprehensive Presentation that includes: Power and Legitimacy in European Politics, Forms of Government, Parliamentary or Presidential?, Identifying Characteristics, Advantages and Disadvantages, Prime Ministers and their Cabinets as well as Parliaments.

Comprehensive Presentation that includes: What is a Political Party? Cleavages and the ‘Golden Age’, Political Science and Political Parties and Prognosis: terminal decline? - Measuring the End of the Party and Weighing up the Arguments.

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 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.