Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Socialism Definitions, Socialism and Human Nature, Socialist Values, Social Class, Class Conflict, Socialism vs. Capitalism, Equality, Key Concepts of Socialism, Social Justice, Problems with Social Justice, Class Conflict, Collectivism, State Socialism, Why Utopia Failed, Social History (1640-1740), Social History (1740-1830), Charles and Robert, Karl Marx, Marxism, Marx’s Three Categories, Orthodox Marxism, Modern Marxism, Modern Marxism, Revisionism, Revolution Not Evolution, How Socialism Works, Types of Socialism, Revolutionary Socialism, Evolutionary Revolutionary Socialism, Fabians, Democratic Socialists as well as Capitalism and Socialism.

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 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: 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 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: When Do Presidential Elections Occur? Stages of Presidential Election, Requirements for a Presidential Candidate, Invisible Primary, Primaries, Timing of Primaries, Super Tuesday, Front Loading, Closed Primaries, Open Primaries, Modified Primaries, Delegate Allocation, Caucuses, Increased Importance of Primaries, Strengths of Primaries, Criticisms of Primaries, How Could They Be Improved? Are Primaries Important? Why Clinton Lost the 2008 Nomination, National Party Conventions: Formal Functions, National Party Conventions: Informal Functions, Post Convention ‘Bounce’, Are Conventions Important? Campaign Finance, Federal Election Campaign Act, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act 2002, Role of the Media, Televised Debates, Impact of TV Debates, Voter Turn Out, Voting Behaviour, Typical Democrat, Typical Republican, Why Did Obama Win in 2008? Electoral College, Criticisms of the Electoral College, Strengths of the Electoral College, Congressional Elections, Coattails Effect, Split Ticket Voting, Strong Support for Incumbents, Propositions, Proposition: Advantages, Proposition: Disadvantages, Referendums and Recall Elections.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Nature of Political Parties, Leadership of Political Parties, The Two-Party System, State Party Power, Big Issues that Shaped the Parties, The Two-Party System, Structure of the Major Parties, Polarisation – Break-up of the Solid South, The 50-50 nation’ and ‘red vs. blue’, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Third Parties, Third Party Obstacles and Theories of Party Renewal/Decline.

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 Presentation that Covers: Post Cold War World, 9/11 and the ‘War on Terror’, Rise of BRICs, The Broadening Concept of Security and Role of Globalisation and Focus on Terrorism.

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: 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: Definition, Purpose, Origins, Features: parliamentary sovereignty, uncodified, unitary, fusion of powers and flexible as well as Advantages and Disadvantages of the UK Constitutions.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Marxism: The Backstory, Marxist Assumptions and Propositions, Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, Case Study and Criticisms of Marxism.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Defining Globalisation, Globalisation in History, Understanding Development, The Bretton Woods Institutions and Orthodox and Alternative Perspectives on Development.

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Civil Society in Political Theory, Towards a Definition of Civil Society, Three Circles Approach, Democracy, Defining Democracy, Forms of Democracy, Democracy and Civil Society, Social Capital as well as Civil Society and Contemporary British Politics.

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.