Government & Politics A and AS Level
These resources follow the structure for Edexcel A and AS level Government and Politics .There are three units to be studied over two years Click the links below to find out more:
Units
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Unit 3 Global Politics (Year 13)
Essay Plans & Advice
How to answer an Edexcel source question on voting behaviour
How to answer a source question Edexcel UK politics, papers 1 and 2
Headlines
Recent developments with links to the course
2021 May Local and Regional Elections UK
Johnson's luck How the NHS saved the PM 'Events, dear boy'
Introduction to studying A level Politics
Useful A-level textbooks
● Lynch, P., Fairclough, P. and Cooper, T. (2017) UK Government and Politics for AS/A-level, 5th edn, Hodder Education.
● McNaughton, N. (2017) Edexcel UK Government and Politics for AS/A-level, 5th edn, Hodder Education.
● Heywood, A. (2017) Essentials of UK Politics, 4th edn, Palgrave.
● Goodlad, G. and Mitchell, A. (2017) Edexcel GCE Politics AS and A-Level,Pearson Education.
● McNaughton, N. and Kelly, R. (2017) Political Ideas for A-level: Liberalism,
Conservatism, Socialism, Feminism, Anarchism, Hodder Education.
● McNaughton, N. and Kelly, R. (2017) Political Ideas for A-level: Liberalism,
Conservatism, Socialism, Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Ecologism, Hodder Education.
● Bennett, A. (2017) US Government and Politics for A-level, 5th edn, Hodder Education.
● Murphy, R., Jefferies, J. and Gadsby, J. (2017) Global Politics for A-level, Hodder Education.
Essay Competitions
R.A. Butler Politics Prize — an essay competition by Trinity College, Cambridge with a choice of ten questions:
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/essay-prizes/
History of Parliament Competition — an essay competition in which you can write on any topic of your choosing relating to parliamentary or political history:
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/schools
➜ Robson History Prize — an history-based essay competition from Trinity College, Cambridge. There is choice of around 90 questions, many of which are politically themed:
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/essay-prizes/
➜ John Locke Institute Essay Competition — an essay competition with titles on politics, history, philosophy, law and economics to choose from:
www.johnlockeinstitute.com
➜ The Orwell Youth Prize — a writing competition that encourages entries in differing styles of writing (not just essays) on political themes:
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-youth-prize/