Year 12 Outline Scheme of Work – Politics

Term / Topic / Useful Weblinks
1 / UK electoral systems, referendums, participation and voting behaviour. / ·  www.electoral-reform.org.uk www.yesscotland.net www.noscotland.net
2 / UK pressure groups and political parties. / ·  www.conservative-party.org.uk; www.labour.org.uk; www.libdems.org.uk; www.greenparty.org.uk; www.ukip.org.uk
·  www.taxpayersalliance.com;www.taxjustice.net;www.38degrees.org.uk; www.adamsmith.org;
3 / UK Multi-level Government (The European Union, The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, Local Government). The UK Constitution, Judiciary and Rights. / ·  www.europarl.europa.eu; www.citizensforeurope.eu; www.scottish.parliament.uk; www.assemblywales.org; www.gloucestershire.gov.uk; www.stroud.gov.uk
·  www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit; www.supremecourt.uk
4 / The UK Core Executive (Prime Minister, Cabinet, Civil Service). The UK Parliament. / ·  www.gov.uk; www.civilservice.gov.uk; www.parliament.uk
5 / Finish above topics and revise / · 
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Looking for a Challenge? Try these …
·  Read a daily broadsheet or quality Sunday newspaper and watch Channel 4 News at 7pm or BBC 2’s Newsnight at 10:30 pm. Read ‘How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country (2015)’ by Will Hutton; ‘Half the Sky: How to Change the World’ by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; ‘The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone’ by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; ’The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact Checking the Left’s New Theory of Everything’ by Christopher Snowden; ‘The Road to Serfdom’ by Friedrich Hayek; ‘The Constitution of Liberty’ by Friedrich Hayek; ’23 Things They Don’t Tell you about Capitalism’ by Ha-Joon Chang; ‘This Blessed Plot: Britain and the EU from Churchill to Blair’ by Hugo Young.