Richard Kimber of Keele University has produced a magnificent website for all teachers and students of Politics. He has successfully achieved his ambition of offering a gateway to the most significant resources relevant to political science on the Internet. Kimber has organized his material in several different ways. Area Studies gives access to information on individual countries. You can also find information by looking at the topics section such as constitutions, elections or political parties.

http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

This is an excellent resource but noticeably missing is any reference to women and politics - to redress the imbalance you may want to refer to the following websites:

The Women's Library
http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/

The Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/

The Fawcett Society
http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/

75 years of Women's votes
http://www.votesforwomen.org.uk/

Pippa Norris, a leading feminist academic at Harvard has a variety of resources on her website:
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/

Feminist.com
http://www.feminist.com/

I have produced a comprehensive encyclopaedia of how British women got the vote.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

I have the same thing for the Americans.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwomen.htm

I also have a page of annotated links to websites on Women’s History.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryW3.htm

I find this website useful when teaching the left/ right paradigm and/or introducing ideologies. The students love doing the questionnaire and placing themselves on the grid next to people like Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin and Thatcher etc. The categories are based on Eyseneck's authoritarian/libertarian and economic left/ right model.
www.politicalcompass.org

A useful online revision guide for most elements of the AS Government and Politics course. Pretty unexciting but it does the job.www.tutor2u.net

Thank you very much for the many websites about resources; unfortunately I cannot add any new ones.
I can only add a problem: I teach at a German school but I teach Politics in English (at least in two of our four classes); in History (where we/I do the same) I have no problem using the English textbooks, but it is very difficult to find English/British politics textbooks which I can use in my lessons. In the classical political fields like particpation, elections, government etc. the textbooks concentrate on the British system - sometimes they add some information about the USA.
It might be interesting to talk about nationalism and textbooks in this context. I am afraid German Politics boosk are as national as their British/American counterparts.
The websites of the German government, the German parties and many German embassies offer information in English - so I can work with those, but very often the English used is very difficult and those pages are not concerned with didactic questions.

This site was brought to my attention today. Perhaps more suitable as a Citizenship resource but interesting nonetheless

www.nationstates.net is an online game which enables you to create your own state based on your political beliefs. Controversial issues are raised daily and feed into your country summary visible to other members. Good fun, not too serious & my A-level students are addicted to it! Check out the Republic for Reason and Equality for my entry.

Nation States is a simulation game for political students. You create your own country, fashioned after your own ideals, and care for its people. When you begin you will be asked to choose a name for your nation, a motto, a national animal, and a currency. Then you answer a short questionnaire about your politics. This will determine what sort of nation you end up with: authoritarian or permissive, left-wing or right-wing, compassionate or psychotic. Once a day, you'll be faced with an issue, and need to make a decision as to what to do about it. This determines how your nation evolves.

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Hello,

The four links links pages at our health & social care website includes a political care domain:

* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political (Autonomy)

Please see -

Political:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksIV.htm

The other pages also involve 'politics' - mental health, accessibility.

I hope this is relevant to you.

Yours sincerely.

Peter
Clinical Specialist: NHS Care Records Service / Informatics
Lancashire Care NHS Trust
h2cm webmaster/Contributor
Beechurst Unit
Chorley
Lancashire

The Electoral Commision's "Do Politics" site has some excellent lesson ideas- 'active learning' type stuff and role plays if anyone is interested.

http://www.dopolitics.co.uk/Resources/resources.cfm