Politics

Course summary

Government and Politics of the UK - The British Constitution, Parliament, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Judiciary, Democracy and Participation, Elections and Referendums, Political Parties, Pressure Groups, the EU and Devolution. Government and Politics of the USA and comparative politics - The US Constitution, Congress, The Presidency and The Supreme Court, the electoral process, Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Civil Rights and key similarities and differences across most aspects of US and UK Politics. Political Ideas - Liberalism. Socialism and Conservatism plus ONE of Nationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism, Anarchism or Ecologism.