Comprehensive Presentation on The Powers of the President, Theories of Presidential Power, The Federal Bureaucracy, The Cabinet, The Executive Office of the President, The President’s Relationship with Congress, President and Foreign Policy, Limits on Presidential Power and The Vice – President.

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: FPTP – First Past The Post, SV - Supplementary Vote, Closed List, STV - Single Transferable Vote and AMS – Additional Members System.

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 regionalism? Motivations for regionalism, A very brief history of the EU, The EU institutions and Theories of European Integration.

Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Role of the Judiciary, Judicial Independence, Judicial Neutrality, Judicial Reviews and Civil Liberties.

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 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: 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: 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: How was Development Defined? Theories of Development: Modernisation, Theories of Development: Dependency, Millennium Development Goals of the UN, Dimensions of Globalisation, Economic Globalisation, Economic Development and Globalisation, Shrinking World, Shrinking Nation State? Impact in Developing Countries, Cultural Issues and Contemporary Issues.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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.