Category Archives: Teaching

GV150 Class Slides and Handouts

Week 16 Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Part 1

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 17 Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Part 2

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 18 Rousseau, The Origin of Inequality

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 19 Rousseau, The Social Contract

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 20 Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 21 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 22 Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 23 Mill, On Liberty

Class Handout


Week 24 Mill, The Subjection of Women

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 25 Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

Class Slides | Class Handout | Task Results


Note: student presentations given in Week 23 are not included above.

GV100 Class Slides and Handouts

Week 02 Liberalism and Conservatism

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 03 Socialism, Communism, and Fascism

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 04 Essay Writing and Ideologies

Class Slides | Handout | Extra Materials


Week 05 Formal and Quantitative Approaches to Politics

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 06 Qualitative Approaches to Politics

Class Handout


Week 07 Institutions

Class Handout


Week 08 Essays, Careers, and Revision

Class Slides


Week 09 Market Failures and Government Justification

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 10 Collective Action

Class Slides | Class Handout

GV101 Class Slides and Handouts

Week 01 The World of Politics

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 02 Why Are Some Countries Democratic?

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 03 Varieties of Dictatorship

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 04 Political Science Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 05 Political Preferences, Ideologies, and Dimensions

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 07 Voting Behaviour: Expressive or Strategic?

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 08 Political Parties: Convergence or Polarisation?

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 09 How Electoral Systems Shape Political Behaviour

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 10 Holding Politicians Accountable: Problems of Information and Manipulation

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 11 Interest Groups and Social Movements: Why Mobilise?

Class Slides | Class Handout | Task Materials


Week 12 How Government Works: Majorities, Consensus, Agendas and Vetoes

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 13 Regimes: Presidents, Ministers, and Parliaments

Class Slides | Class Handout | Essay Workshop Slides


Week 14 Cabinets, Coalitions, and Single-Party Governments

Class Slides | Class Handout | Task Materials | Task Results


Week 15 Levels of Government: Federalism and Decentralisation

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 16 Independent Institutions: Courts and Central Banks

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 18 Economic Performance

Class Slides | Class Handout | Task Materials


Week 19 Public Spending and Economic Inequality

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 20 Women’s Political Representation

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 21 Politics in Ethnically Divided Societies

Class Slides | Class Handout


Week 22 Revision and Exam Preparation

Class Slides