Government and Politics

Assessment

Unit 1 UK politics- 33% Democracy and participation in the UK, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media, together with the core UK political ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism At the end of the course, you will have roughly six hours of examination split across three papers. The questions will cover literature and historical and visual material. Unit 2 UK government -33% The topics studied are the UK Constitution, the respective roles of Parliament, the judiciary, the prime minister & executive and the ideology of nationalism Unit 3 Comparative politics: USA -33% The topics studied are the US Constitution, US Congress, the presidency, the US Supreme Court, civil rights, democracy and participation and US Elections; this unit also has two questions comparing the US system to that of the UK