Government and Politics

Course summary

An interest in current affairs or at least contemporary history does no harm in the study of Politics. However, learning how politics works is in many ways more like Business, considering how organisations, this time the government rather than the firm, operate both internally and how they relate to the external environment of electors, pressure groups and political ideologies. The study of the British and American political systems in the A Level and popular movements in the IB ultimately seeks to compare how real life experiences match up to the larger abstract philosophical ideas of democracy, freedom and justice.