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: 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 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 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: 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: John Major, Eurobarometer, The UK’s Special Status in Europe, Has Britain been an ‘awkward partner’ in Europe? Net Contributor and Britain in Europe since 1945.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: FPTP – First Past The Post, SV - Supplementary Vote, Closed List, STV - Single Transferable Vote and AMS – Additional Members System.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is regionalism? Motivations for regionalism, A very brief history of the EU, The EU institutions and Theories of European Integration.
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.