Government and Politics

A/S offers students a grounding in voting behaviour, electoral systems and analysis of the role of Parliament and its component parts.

A2 features detailed study of the 'Politics of the USA' and 'Perspectives on Modern Politics' - the latter includes the impact of devolutuon, globalisation, declining formal participation. At A/S examiantions are based on response to data. At A2 a combination of paragraph - based and essay questions is used.