Government and Politics

Assessment

Component 1 UK Politics Political Participation • Democracy and Participation • Political parties • Electoral systems • Voting behaviour and the media Core ideas • Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism ASSESSMENT: A range of short and long answer questions Component 2 UK Government • The Constitution • Parliament • The PM and Government • Relations between the branches Options: (one of): anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism and nationalism ASSESSMENT: A range of short and long answer questions Component 3 Comparative Politics (one part of the paper will contain questions comparing UK and US Politics or UK and Global Politics) US Politics • Constitution • Pressure Groups • Political Parties • Congress • Supreme Court • Presidency • Elections • Race and Ethnicity OR Global Politics • The state and globalisation • Global governance: political and economic • Global governance: human rights and environmental • Power and developments • Regionalism and the EU • Comparative theories ASSESSMENT: A range of short and long answer questions There will be three exams in total during the summer of the Senior Sixth. These exams will count for all of the marks available for the qualification. Each is two hours long and comprises one-third of the available marks per paper.