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British Politics
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The professor of the British Politics course, Todd Foreman, adjunct professor of government, who now holds both United States and British citizenship, has a rare double vision. He grew up in Danville and attended Grinnell College in Iowa. He spent a year as a prestigious Watson Fellow studying the Labour Parties in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He spent his third year as a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School at the London School of Economics. He has a master's degree in banking and finance law from the University of London and has been a practicing lawyer in London for the past six years.
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The aim of this course is to equip you with a thorough conceptual and substantive understanding of British and European politics and government. The course aims to develop a through understanding of the central conceptual themes relevant to the research and the study of European politics. You will gain a deep level of understanding and knowledge in your selected areas and will acquire experience of the practical application of research training through the completion of a dissertation. London Metropolitan University's Governance and International Relations section (City campus) has a well-established reputation for research undertaken by its staff in Politics, International Relations, Development Studies and American Studies. In the most recent UK Higher Education Funding Council Research Assessment Exercise, the section was rated 3A for its research in Politics and International Relations (ie. standard of national excellence, with evidence of international excellence in some areas).
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Divided into three main sections the course first covers the background to modern British politics. In section two the structures and patterns of political participation are described and analysed with particular emphasis on political parties and political representation. The third section examines the machinery of government. Throughout the course discussion will be framed by the major conceptual and theoretical approaches used in the study of contemporary politics.
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[One] thing many Americans have liked about British politics is that much less money is spent on it than in this country. But that is ceasing to be the case. M.P.s are still subject to ridiculous low spending limits in their districts during the five-week campaign period. But that doesn't really matter any more, because the parties' central offices were sending out huge mass mailings and have carefully designed the candidates' printed handouts weeks before.
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There is... considerable documentation on British concerns over potential nuclear accidents, including clippings from British newspapers. The portions of the files containing such information are about one hundred pages. The articles do not specifically mention Greenham Common, they focus on British reaction to an accident that had occurred in South Carolina.
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AC Grayling, another British philosopher, adds that as horizons have enlarged, there are "new kinds of striving" so that people are just as far from their goals as they were 50 or even 500 years ago. "Modernity has raised expectations," he says. "The reason people don't score more highly is that standards have risen and risen again."
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