Politics

Assessment

Component 1: UK Politics Written examination:2 hours 33⅓ % of the qualification 84 marks 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 Written examination: 2 hours 33⅓ % of the qualification 84 marks Content overview 1. UK Government, students will study:the constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and executive, relationships between the branches. 2. Optional Political Ideas, students will study:one idea from the following: anarchism,ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism,nationalism.Component 3: Comparative Politics Written examination: 2 hours 33⅓ % of the qualification 84 marks Content overview theories of Global Politics, sovereignty and globalisation, global governance: political and economic, global governance: human rights and environmental, power and developments,regionalism and the European Union.