Government & Politics

Department Staff

Mrs C Woods - Head of Faculty

Mr T Finn-Kelcey - Government and Politics 

At A level students will study for the Edexcel examination.

The course comprises 3 papers, as follows:

Component 1 UK Politics

• Political Participation (you will study Democracy, Political Parties, Elections, Voting behaviour and Media Representation)
• Core ideas (Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism)

Component 2 UK Government

• UK Government (You will study the UK Constitution, PM and Cabinet, Parliament and the Judiciary)
• Optional ideas (choose one from anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism and nationalism)

Component 3 Comparative Politics

• Global Politics