Government and Politics

Course summary

At a fundamental level, Politics is about the study of power. Who holds it? How did they acquire it? How is it legitimised and held accountable? What principles guide those who wield it? To answer these, we introduce a range of relevant and contemporary political ideas, institutions, key thinkers, processes and issues, in the UK, the USA, and in our political past. The remarkable changes and events of recent years, be that Trumpism in the USA, or Brexit in the UK, are the landscape that we introduce students to, and there has never been a more exciting time to study the subject.