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