Government and Politics

Course summary

Year 12 Unit 1 – UK Politics: democracy, political parties, electoral systems, and voting behavior, the media. Unit 2 – UK Government: the constitution, parliament, the Prime Minister, and relationships between the different branches of government. Year 13 Unit 1 – Core Political Ideas: conservatism, liberalism, socialism (all three ideas). Unit 2 – Non-Core Political Ideas: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism (one idea only). Unit 3 – Government and Politics of the USA: the US Constitution and federalism, US Congress, the President, US Supreme Court and civil rights, democracy and participation, comparative theories.