In this episode we look at how the UK political parties select their leaders. What are the challenges in selecting a popular leader using a fair and democratic system? What if there is no consensus? How effective and democratic are the leadership selection processes?

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In this episode we look at how the Supreme Court first created an effective law on abortion through its Roe V Wade ruling. How did this then evolve over the next decades to reach its final overturning? What are the consequences on America politics and on federalism? Politics Explains!

What are Congressional Committees? What types are there? How do they check the executive? Are they really that boring? Listen to this episode to find out!

In this episode we explore what the power of the purse is. Why is it a check on presidential power? How easy is it for funding deals to pass in Congress, and what does that tell us about the state of American politics?

In this episode we discuss Affirmative Action in the United States. What was the policy and why was it introduced? How did the Supreme Court out an end to the policy, and what are the consequences?

In this episode, we look at the attempts to increase devolution in England, and the reasons why it has been a slow and incomplete process. This is a short episode from the Politips Explains series, where we look at important political concepts.

In this episode we look at each step of the UK legislative process. We then look at the Rwanda Safety Bill as a case study of the legislative process in action. This is a Politips Explains episode, aimed at providing short explanations of important political concepts.

The UK has an unmodified constitution, so how do we work out what it is? In this episode we explore the different sources of the UK Constitution. This is a Politips Explains episode; short explanations of important political concepts.

In this episode we explore what constitutions are, the difference between codified and uncodified constitutions, and what the features of the UK constitution are. This is an episode of Politips Explains, the short episodes that aim to explain political terms and concepts.

Introducing Politips Explains, our new short episodes aimed at explaining important political concepts and ideas. These will be shorter than our usual episodes and aim to explain key concepts, rather than the discussion style of our normal episodes. They will be particularly useful for anyone revising for their politics exams.