1. Elections and Politics

2. Review China Iran Mexico Communist Party
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
Iran
Conservative Alliance
Reformist Alliance
Clerical Clusters
Mexico
PRI, PAN, PRD

3. Review Nigeria Russia PDP Action Congress of Nigeria
All Nigeria’s People’s Party
Russia
United Russia Party
Communist Party of the Russia Federation
A Just Russia Party
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

4. Review UK
Conservative Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats

5. Warm-up Activity What are Special Interest Groups? Political Parties?
Bureaucracy?
Military?
Majority System?
Plurality System?
Proportional System?

6. Special Interest Groups
How would you influence legislators in:
Majority Systems?
Proportional Systems?
Presidential Systems?
Parliamentary Systems?

7. Military and Bureaucracy
How would you influence the government:
in a presidential system?
in a parliamentary system?
in the legislative branch?
in the executive branch?
in the judicial branch?