POL 1010

TUTORIAL 1

THE INSTITUTIONS OF ANGLO-AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

 

 

 

Lecture: Anglo-American Democracy. M.T.Shaw

 

Discussion topics:
  1. "Constitutional and political checks." Are both found within the British and American political systems?
  2. "Administrative oversight." How is this accomplished in Parliament and Congress?
  3. "Collective responsibility." Does this British constitutional concept have any relevance to American central administration?
  4. "Judicial policy-making." Is this confined to the United States or can it also occur in Britain?

 

Reading list:

Hague Harrop and Breslin Chap 2

Malcolm Walles, British and American Systems of Government.

Malcolm Shaw, Anglo-American Democracy.

Kenneth Bradshaw and David Pring, Parliament and Congress, rev. ed.

Richard Hodder-Williams and James Ceaser (eds.), Politics in Bitain and the United States.

Richard Rose and Ezra Suleiman (eds.), Presidents and Prime Ministers, chs. 1 and 8.

David McKay, American Politics and Society, 4th ed.

Nigel Bowles, Government and Politics of the United States, 2nd ed.

Gillian Peele, Christopher Bailey, Bruce Cain and Guy Peters (eds.), Developments in American Politics 3.

Dennis Kavanagh, British Politics, 3rd ed.

Bill Jones et al., Politics UK, 3rd ed.

R.M. Punnett, British Government and Politics, 6th ed.

 

LINKS

Portal to US government sites with search facility [slow to load]

http://www.fedworld.gov

Another portal to similar information [slow to load]

http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html

US government Blue Pages [much quicker]

http://www.bp.fed.gov

Main portal for UK government documents and information

http://www.open.gov.uk

 

I promised to put in a link to the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz project home page: this is it:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

 

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