Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Links at Sharing Comparative

Finding lots of YouTube videos made by Comparative Politics students, reminded me that there's a fine list of links at the "Sharing Comparative" group site.

If you belong to the "Sharing Comparative" Yahoo group, you'll find links to the following teaching materials related to the UK. (There are folders of links for the other countries in the AP curriculum as well.)

And when you find a good online link, you can add it so the rest of us can use it too.

If you don't belong, go to the "Sharing Comparative" site and request to join.

Links to teaching materials at the Sharing Comparative group site

  • BBC Guide to UK Parliament
    History and an interactive diagram
  • BBC Guide to UK political parties
    Thumbnail sketches of parties
  • BBC Guide to the UK cabinet
    Brief bios of cabinet members
  • Constitutional Reform Act of 2005
    The law creating a supreme court for the UK
  • David Cameron's first speech as PM
    Government goals
  • Election Night
    Satire of British election night coverage
  • Electoral Geography: United Kingdom
    Maps of election results
  • How a bill becomes a law (US version)
    Schoolhouse Rocks classic (for comparision)
  • Interview with Lord Vance
    A Law Lord explains the constitutional changes
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown (1)
    from the BBC
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown (2)
    from The Times of London
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown (3)
    BBC summary of others' comments
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown (4)
    from The Independent
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown 5
    from The New Statesman (left)
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown 6
    David Cameron "shreds" Brown during PM Questions
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown 7
    Details on the bank collapse
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown 8
    Brown responds to his "bigotted" woman comment
  • Legacy of Gordon Brown 9
    Review of Brown's memoir
  • Making Laws: How a law is made
    A British version of how a bill becomes a law
  • PM Brown's campaign speech, Sept 09
    PM's speech at the Labour Party conference
  • Radical Britain
    Why reform in Britain might be easy (Aug 2010)
  • The GOP and the Tories
    Comparison of US Republicans and UK Conservatives
  • The House of Lords: What's it all about?
    Lords explain their role in Parliament
  • The Role of an MP
    MPs explain their roles as Parliamentarians
  • UK Supreme Court
    A new appellate court in London
  • UK maps and photographs
    Copyright free images from Wikimedia Commons

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