Government and Politics

Entry Requirements

There are no specific subject requirements for A Level Politics. Politics A Level involves rigorous academic analysis of the type you will find in similar subjects like History, English, or Economics. Effectively, it is the study of power and authority – who has power, how did they get that power, how do they exercise that power? At the same time, who doesn’t have power, what means are available to influence those with power, or even take power themselves? This is a subject that will involve a good amount of reading and is of course assessed through writing shorter and longer essay answers. However, the key necessity for the study of politics is to be interested in the world around you and to have a desire to understand why things are the way they are.