Government and Politics

Assessment

Component 1 UK Politics • 2 hours/33⅓% • TWO 30-mark questions (Section A) and ONE 24-mark question (Section B) Section A Political Participation: Democracy and participation Political parties Electoral systems Voting behaviour and the media Section B Core Political Ideas: Conservatism Liberalism, Socialism Component 2 UK Government • 2 hours/33⅓% • TWO 30-mark questions (Section A) and ONE 24-mark question (Section B) Section A The constitution Parliament Prime Minister and executive Relationships between the branches Section B • ONE non-core political idea Component 3 Comparative Politics (Global Politics) • 2 hours/33⅓% • TWO twelve-mark questions and TWO 30-mark questions Sovereignty and globalisation Global governance: political and economic Global governance: human rights and environmental Power and developments regionalism and the European Union Comparative theories.