Government and Politics

Course summary

Subject Content: Component 1: UK Politics Component 2: UK Government Component 3: Comparative Politics Component 1: UK Politics: Content overview 1. Political Participation, students will study: • democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media. 2. Core Political Ideas, students will study: • conservatism, liberalism, socialism. Component 2: UK Government: 1. UK Government, students will study: • the constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and executive, relationships between the branches. 2. Non-core political ideas, students will study: • one idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism. Component 3: Comparative Politics: For USA (3A), students will study: • the US Constitution and federalism, US Congress, US presidency, US Supreme Court and civil rights, democracy and participation, comparative theories. OR For Global (3B) students will study: • sovereignty and globalisation, global governance: political and economic, global governance: human rights and environmental, power. and developments, regionalism and the European Union, comparative theories.