POLITICS
Politics
Course outline
AS level
- Democracy and participation
- Political parties
- Electoral systems
- Voting behaviour and the media
Component 2: UK Government
- The constitution
- Parliament
- Prime Minister and executive
- Relationships between the branches
A level
UK Politics
- Democracy and participation
- Political parties
- Electoral systems
- Voting behaviour and the media
Core Political Ideas
- Liberalism
- Conservatism
- Socialism
Component 2: UK Government
UK Government
- The constitution
- Parliament
- Prime Minister and executive
- Relations between the branches
Non-core Political Ideas
- Anarchism
- Ecologism
- Feminism
- Multiculturalism
- Nationalism
Component 3: Comparative Politics
Government and Politics of the USA
- The US Constitution and federalism
- US Congress
- US presidency
- US Supreme Court and US civil rights
- US democracy and participation
- Comparative theories
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
Assesment
AS level
Component 1
- 60 marks
- 1 hour 45 minutes written paper
- 50% of total AS level
Component 2
- 60 marks
- 1 hour 45 minutes written paper
- 50% of total AS level
A level
Component 1
- 84 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 33.3% of total A level
Component 2
- 84 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 33.3% of total A level
Component 3
- Assessment of one of the two options
- 84 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 33.3% of total A level
Specification
Teachers
BSc (Southampton), MA (Newcastle)
Benedict Tucker
BA (Cambridge)
Nicholas Dommett
BSc (Imperial), MA (King’s), LLB (Birm), LLM (SOAS), PhD (King’s)
News
Stupendous 2024 A Level Results at Westminster Tutors
We are thrilled to announce the remarkable achievements of our students in the interim 2024 A level results at Westminster Tutors Independent Sixth Form College. Our students’ dedication and hard work have truly set them apart, and we could not be prouder of...
What’s it really like at university?!
At Westminster Tutors, we are all too familiar with the stresses that all sixth form students encounter as they start to think about life beyond college and what they actually want to do as they move into adult life. Increasingly young people feel the weight...
We’re Celebrating A Level Results above National Averages in a Range of Subjects
Setting The Standard in Academic Excellence: A Whopping 32% A*/A Grades Achieved In a triumph against the current trend of grade deflation, Westminster Tutors has once again demonstrated its commitment to academic excellence by achieving exceptional A level...
Visit to the Houses of Parliament
On Monday 31st October, students from year 12 and 13 visited the Houses of Parliament, accompanied by Anthony Staddon, one of our Politics teachers and an expert on parliamentary process. Students were given a tour, listened in to debates in both the Commons...
Visit to the Houses of Parliament
We have arranged a visit to the Houses of Parliament on Monday 31 October between 2:15pm and 4:30pm. We will meet at college and travel there as a group. This is a fantastic opportunity to see inside one of the world’s most famous buildings and learn more...
Westminster Authors
Our teachers have many talents, and several of them are published authors! David Swift has taught History and Politics at Westminster Tutors for several years, alongside researching and teaching at a number of universities in the UK and abroad. He...
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