GCE A Level - Politics

Course summary

The course involves studying 3 areas. The government and politics of the UK. What are the main branches of government? What do they do? What are they allowed to do? Where does power lie in the UK? How do we make laws and bring about change? How does our political system function? How do we as citizens participate in the political system? Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics. Where does power lie in the US? What are the powers of the President, Congress and Supreme Court? How do the US make laws and bring about change in the US? What are the similarities and differences of the UK and US political system? Political ideas: What is an ideology? What do they mean? What are the positive and negative aspects of these ideologies? (Conservatism, liberalism, socialism and a choice of nationalism, feminism, multiculturalism, anarchism, ecologism).