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Politics (9PL0)
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Free Politics (9PL0) revision notes for Pearson Edexcel A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
UK Politics
Component 1: UK Politics
Democracy and participation
Political parties
Electoral systems
Voting behaviour and the media
Core Political Ideas
Component 1: Core Political Ideas
Liberalism
Conservatism
Socialism
UK Government
Liberalism
Liberalism: core ideas and principles
Differing views and tensions within liberalism
Liberal thinkers and their ideas
Non-core Political Ideas
Component 2: UK Government
The constitution
Parliament
Prime Minister and executive
Relations between the branches
Government and Politics of the USA
Component 2: Non-core Political Ideas
Anarchism
Ecologism
Feminism
Multiculturalism
Nationalism
Component 3A: 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 approaches: UK and USA
Component 3B: 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: realism and liberalism
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