Government and Politics

Assessment

Paper 1: UK Politics - 33.3% 2 hours marks Political Participation: democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media. Core Political Ideas: convervatism, liberalism, socialism Paper 2: UK Government -33.3% 2 hours marks UK Government: the constitution, parliament, Prime Minester and executive, relationships between the branches. Optional Political Ideas: one idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism. Paper 3: Government and Politics of the USA - 33.3% 2 hours marks US Constitution and Federalism, Congress, US Presidency, The Supreme Court and Civil Rights, Democracy and Participation and comparative Approaches between the UK and USA.