Government and Politics

Course summary

UK Politics and core political ideas • Democracy and participation • Political parties • Electoral systems • Voting behaviour and the media • Core ideas: Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism UK Government • The constitution • Parliament • The Prime Minister and executive • Relationships between the branches • Non-core idea: Feminism Comparative politics: Global Politics • The state and globalisation • Global governance: political and economic • Global governance: human rights and environmental • Power and developments • Regionalism and the European Union • Comparative theories (realism and liberalism)