Government and Politics

Assessment

Paper 1 The government and politics of the UK. Paper 2 The government and politics of the USA. Including a comparative element between the UK and the US systems of government with reference to the three theoretical approaches of rational, structural and cultural comparison. Paper 3 Political ideologies. The traditions of liberalism, conservatism and socialism plus one further ideology from: feminism; nationalism; multiculturalism; ecologism or anarchism.