| Political concepts/theory |
| The UK Constitution |
| Economy concepts/theory |
| Economic policy/Institutions |
| The UK state/ Whitehall |
| Local Government |
| Cabinet government |
| Parliamentary democracy |
| Elections and parties |
| Financial Institutions/City |
| Companies/ company law/ AGMs |
| Civil Society/news sources |
| Churches/ other religions |
| Pressure Groups |
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| Week | Date | 2009: LECTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER | |
01 |
FEB 10 |
Political concepts: key political theorists from Plato to Postmodernism: assignment briefing |
JOHN WILKES (Below): Libertine, scandalmonger, pornographer, radical (and later conservative) politician and the father of English political Journalism. Engraving by William Hogarth.LECTRES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER |
| 02 | FEB 17 | Economic concepts: neo-classicism to modernism - Empiricism, Smith, Marx, Keynes | |
03 |
FEB 24 |
Institutions (1) The UK state and central government: part one history, dynamics and principles |
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04 |
MAR 03 |
Institutions (2) Who rules? Whitehall and departments of state as sources of news |
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05 |
MAR 10 |
Institutions (3) Local government and local institutions as news sources |
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06 |
MAR 17 |
Reading week |
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07 |
MAR 24 |
Feedback on assignment one / briefing for assignment two (news reporting project) |
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08 |
APR 28 |
UK electoral politics. Democracy and the role of the press and broadcasting |
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09 |
MAY 05 |
Financial Insitutions, macroeconomic policy, companies and the City as news sources |
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10 |
MAY 12 |
Civil society: concept and practicalities. Pressure groups as new sources |
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11 |
MAY 19 |
The UK, the EU and the world. Foreign policy, the military and the war on terror |
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| 12 | MAY 26 |
Module review (Weds May 27th: Hand in assignment two) |
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