A Level Politics
A LevelPoliticsSpecificationPearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics (9PL0)First teaching from September 2017First certification from 2019Issue 2
Summary of Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCEin Politics specification Issue 2 changesSummary of changes made between previous issue and this currentissueWe made some spelling and grammatical changes within the specification.Pagenumber1–102For 1.2 we have changed the word 'principles' to 'key features' of theUS Constitution.40The term "waves of feminism" has been added and defined to the key termsfor Different types of feminism.79We amended the definition of 'principle' to read:82The core structural aspects of how the US Constitution was defined by theFounding Fathers when it was drafted.If you need further information on these changes or what they mean, contact us via ourwebsite at: tml.
Contents1Introduction2Why choose Edexcel A Level Politics?2Supporting you in planning and implementing this qualification3Qualification at a glance426Subject content and assessment informationComponent 1: UK Politics and Core Political Ideas7Component 2: UK Government and Non-core Political Ideas22Component 3: Comparative Politics39Assessment Objectives55356Administration and general informationEntries56Access arrangements, reasonable adjustments, special consideration andmalpractice56Student recruitment and progression59Appendix 1: Question paper command words63Appendix 2: Key terminology glossary64Appendix 3: The context for the development of thisqualification93Appendix 4: Transferable skills95Appendix 5: Level 3 Extended Project qualification96Appendix 6: Codes98
1 IntroductionWhy choose Edexcel A Level Politics?We’ve listened to feedback from all parts of the politics subject community, including highereducation. We’ve used this opportunity of curriculum change to redesign qualifications sothat they reflect the demands of a truly modern and evolving political environment in the UKand around the world – qualifications that enable your students to apply themselves andwhich give them the skills to succeed. At AS Level, students will study UK politics andUK government, which will give them a set of core knowledge and understanding of politics.Students will then develop this knowledge and understanding at A Level, and study threecore political ideas and another from a choice of five. They then have the choice to studyeither the government and politics of the USA or global politics.Familiar specification within a clear and coherent structureOur new specification is familiar and manageable, but with new components introduced in astraightforward structure. Each topic in our qualification is fully detailed, providing you withthe full range of breadth and depth to teach.A wide range of engaging and contemporary issuesOur qualification includes a broad range of relevant and contemporary ideas, institutions,processes and issues to support learning about politics.Clear assessments for students of all abilitiesAssessments will develop students’ skills in critical thinking and analysis, using a variety ofquestion types, sources and materials.Free topic-specific resourcesWe will provide teacher and student guides for all the content, including the new content onpolitical thinkers and their ideas, and approaches to comparative politics.AS and A Level qualifications that are co-teachableCo-teaching AS and A Level provides flexibility for you and your students. Centresco-teaching AS and A Level can deliver the UK politics and UK government content in thefirst year, allowing students to be entered for the AS at the end of year.2Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
Supporting you in planning and implementing thisqualificationPlanning Our Getting Started Guide gives you an overview of the new AS and A Levelqualifications to help you to get to grips with the changes to content and assessment,and to help you understand what these changes mean for you and your students. We will give you editable course planners and schemes of work, which you can adaptto suit your department. Our mapping documents highlight key differences between the new and the 2008qualifications.Teaching and learningThere will be lots of free teaching and learning materials and support to help you deliver thenew qualifications, including: suggested resource lists for each component a student learning and revision guide materials for your options evenings a new, more detailed Getting Started guide, including topic-specific guides withinformation on each of the political ideas and their thinkers, and support and literature tohelp teaching and learning on the comparative theories for the A Level options a free bridging unit to give students ‘An Introduction to Politics’ on their move from GCSEto AS/A Level.Preparing for examsWe will also provide a range of resources to help you prepare your students for theassessments, including: additional assessment materials to support formative assessments and mock exams marked exemplars of student work with examiner commentaries.ResultsPlusResultsPlus provides the most detailed analysis available of your students’ examperformance. It can help you identify the topics and skills where further learning wouldbenefit your students.Get help and supportOur subject advisor service and online community will ensure you receive help and guidancefrom us and that you can share ideas and information with other teachers. You can sign upto receive e-newsletters to keep up to date with qualification updates and product andservice news.Learn more at qualifications.pearson.comPearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification –Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 20193
Qualification at a glanceContent and assessment overviewThe Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics consists of three externally-examinedpapers.Students must complete all assessment in May/June in any single year.Component 1: UK Politics (*Component code: 9PL0/01)Written examination: 2 hours33⅓% of the qualification84 marksContent overview1. Political Participation, students will study: democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and themedia.2. Core Political Ideas, students will study: conservatism, liberalism, socialism.Assessment overviewSection A: Political ParticipationOne 30-mark question from a choice of two (each question uses a source) – students mustcomplete one of these. Plus one 30-mark question from a choice of two – students mustcomplete one of these.All questions assess AO1, AO2 and AO3.Section B: Core Political IdeasOne 24-mark question from a choice of two, which assesses AO1, AO2 and AO3.Component 2: UK Government (*Component code: 9PL0/02)Written examination: 2 hours33⅓% of the qualification84 marksContent overview1. UK Government, students will study: the constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and executive, relationships between thebranches.2. Non-core political ideas, students will study: one idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism,nationalism.Assessment overviewSection A: UK Government One 30-mark question from a choice of two (each question uses a source) – students mustcomplete one of these. Plus one 30-mark question from a choice of two – students mustcomplete one of these. All questions assess AO1, AO2 and AO3.Section B: Non-core Political Ideas One 24-mark question from a choice of two, which assesses AO1, AO2 and AO3.4Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
Component 3: Comparative Politics (*Component code: 9PL0/3A or 3B)Written examination: 2 hours33⅓% of the qualification84 marksStudents study either USA (9PL0/3A) or Global (9PL0/3B)Content overviewFor USA (3A), students will study: the US Constitution and federalism, US Congress, US presidency, US Supreme Court andcivil rights, democracy and participation, comparative theories.ORFor Global (3B) students will study: sovereignty and globalisation, global governance: political and economic, global governance:human rights and environmental, power and developments, regionalism and the EuropeanUnion, comparative theories.Assessment overview for 3A and 3BSection A One 12-mark question from a choice of two, which assesses AO1 and AO2.Section B One compulsory 12-mark question focused on comparative theories, which assessesAO1 and AO2.Section C Two 30-mark questions from a choice of three, which assess AO1, AO2 and AO3.*See Appendix 6: Codes for a description of this code and all other codes relevant to thisqualification.Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification –Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 20195
2 Subject content and assessmentinformationQualification aims and objectivesThe aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to: develop knowledge and an informed understanding of contemporary political structuresand issues in their historical context, both within the United Kingdom (UK) and globally develop a critical awareness of the changing nature of politics and the relationshipsbetween political ideas, institutions and processes develop knowledge and an informed understanding of the influences and interests whichhave an impact on decisions in government and politics develop knowledge and an informed understanding of the rights and responsibilities ofindividuals and groups develop the ability to critically analyse, interpret and evaluate political information toform arguments and make judgements develop an interest in, and engagement with, contemporary politics.6Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
Component 1: UK Politics and Core Political IdeasThere are two compulsory sections to this component: UK Politics and Core Political Ideas.UK PoliticsThis section explores the nature of politics and how people engage in the political process inthe UK.Students will investigate in detail how people and politics interact. They will explore theemergence and development of the UK’s democratic system and the similarities, differences,connections and parallels between direct and indirect democracy. They will focus on the roleand scope of political parties that are so central to contemporary politics, including thesignificance of the manifestos they publish at election time and their relevance to themandate of the resulting government.This section allows students to understand the individual in the political process and theirrelationship with the state and their fellow citizens. Students will examine how electoralsystems in the UK operate and how individuals and groups are influenced in their votingbehaviour and political actions. This component will further examine the role of the media incontemporary politics. It will also give students an understanding of voting patterns andvoting behaviour.There are four content areas in UK Politics:1. Democracy and participation2. Political parties3. Electoral systems4. Voting behaviour and the media.Core Political IdeasThis section allows students to explore the three traditional political ideas of conservatism,liberalism and socialism. Students will learn about the core ideas and principles and how theyapply in practice to human nature, the state, society and the economy, the divisions withineach idea and their key thinkers.There are three content areas in Core Political Ideas:1. Liberalism2. Conservatism3. Socialism.Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification –Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 20197
Skills Students must comprehend and interpret political information in relation to areas ofUK politics and core political ideas. Students must fully understand, and critically analyse and evaluate areas of UK politicsand core political ideas. Students must identify parallels, connections, similarities and differences betweencontent studied, providing a basis for comparing the UK with the USA and appreciatingthe UK’s position in global politics. Students must construct and communicate arguments and explanations with relevance,clarity and coherence, and draw reasoned conclusions about UK politics and core politicalideas. Students must develop knowledge and understanding of key political concepts. Thecontent supports these skills by presenting the main content for learning in the righthand side of the content tables. Students must use appropriate vocabulary. The content supports this skill by listing keyterminology in each content area in the left-hand side of the content table. The lists areto support teaching of the main content and help students to use appropriate vocabularyin assessment. Students should, therefore, familiarise themselves with the definitions ofkey terminology for each section, please also see Appendix 2: Key terminology glossary.8Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
UK Politics contentSubject contentStudents should gain knowledge and understanding of:1 Democracy andparticipation1.1Key terminologyLegitimacyDirect democracy The features of direct democracy and representativedemocracy. The similarities and differences between direct democracyand representative democracy.Advantages and disadvantages of direct democracy andrepresentative democracy and consideration of the case forreform.RepresentativedemocracyPluralist democracyCurrent systems of representative democracy and directdemocracy.1.2Democratic deficitA wider franchise and debates over suffrage. Key milestones in the widening of the franchise in relationto class, gender, ethnicity and age, including the 1832Great Reform Act and the 1918, 1928 and 1969Representation of the People Acts. The work of the suffragists/suffragettes to extend thefranchise.Participation crisisFranchise/suffrageThink tanksLobbyistsThe work of a current movement to extend the franchise.1.31.4Pressure groups and other influences. How different pressure groups exert influence and howtheir methods and influence vary in contemporarypolitics. Case studies of two different pressure groups,highlighting examples of how their methods and influencevary. Other collective organisations and groups including thinktanks, lobbyists and corporations, and their influence ongovernment and Parliament.Rights in context. Major milestones in their development, including thesignificance of Magna Carta and more recentdevelopments, including the Human Rights Act 1998 andEquality Act 2010. Debates on the extent, limits and tensions within the UK’srights-based culture, including consideration of howindividual and collective right may conflict, thecontributions from civil liberties pressure groups –including the work of two contemporary civil libertiespressure groups.Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification –Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 20199
Subject contentStudents should gain knowledge and understanding of:2 Political parties2.1Key terminologyOld Labour (socialdemocracy)New Labour(Third Way)2.2Political parties. The functions and features of political parties in the UK’srepresentative democracy. How parties are currently funded and debates on theconsequences of the current funding system.Established political parties. One NationNew RightClassical liberals2.3The origins and historical development of the ConservativeParty, the Labour Party and Liberal Democrat Party, andhow this has shaped their ideas and current policies on theeconomy, law and order, welfare and foreign affairs.Emerging and minor UK political parties.Modern liberals The importance of other parties in the UK.Party systems The ideas and policies of two other minor parties.Left-wingRight-wing102.4UK political parties in context. The development of a multi-party system and itsimplications for government. Various factors that affect party success – explanations ofwhy political parties have succeeded or failed, includingdebates on the influence of the media.Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
Subject contentStudents should gain knowledge and understanding of:3 Electoral systems3.1Different electoral systems. First-past-the-post(FPTP)First-past-the-post (FPTP), Additional Member System(AMS), Single Transferable Vote (STV), andSupplementary Vote (SV). Additional MemberSystem (AMS)The advantages and disadvantages of these differentsystems. Comparison of first-past-the-post (FPTP) to a differentelectoral system in a devolved parliament/assembly.Key terminologySingle TransferableVote (STV)3.2SupplementaryVote (SV)Referendums and how they are used. How referendums have been used in the UK and theirimpact on UK political life since 1997. The case for and against referendums in a representativedemocracy.Safe seatMarginal seatMinority governmentCoalition government3.3Electoral system analysis. Debates on why different electoral systems are used in theUK. The impact of the electoral system on the government ortype of government appointed. The impact of different systems on party representationand of electoral systems on voter choice.Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification –Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 201911
Subject contentStudents should gain knowledge and understanding of:4 Voting behaviourand the media4.1Case studies of three key general elections. Case studies of three elections (one from the period 1945–92, the 1997 election, and one since 1997), the resultsand their impact on parties and government. The factors that explain the outcomes of these elections,including:Key terminologyClass dealignmentPartisan dealignmentGoverningcompetencyDisillusion andapathyManifestoMandate 4.2othe reasons for and impact of party policies andmanifestos, techniques used in their electioncampaigns, and the wider political context of theelectionsoclass-based voting and other factors influencing votingpatterns, such as partisanship and voting attachmentogender, age, ethnicity and region as factors ininfluencing voting behaviour, turnout and trends.Analysis of the national voting-behaviour patterns forthese elections, revealed by national data sources and howand why they vary.The influence of the media. The Assessment of the role and impact of the media onpolitics – both during and between key general elections,including the importance and relevance of opinion polls,media bias and persuasion.Definitions of key terminology are given in Appendix 2: Key terminology glossary.12Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Politics – Specification– Issue 2 – February 2019 Pearson Education Limited 2019
Core Political Ideas contentConservatismConservatism seeks to conserve society as it is and is suspicious of change. Conservatismvalues pragmatism over ideological thinking, seeking to adapt its values over time, accordingto changes in society. However, new right thinking within conservatism in the 1970s and1980s challenged much of what conservatism had traditionally stood for.There are three content areas:1. Conservatism: core ideas and principles2. Differing views and tensions within conservatism3. Conservative thinkers and their ideas.Subject contentStudents should gain knowledge and understanding of:1 Conservatism: coreideas and principlesCore ideas and principles of conservatism and how they relate tohuman nature, the state, society and the economy: pragmatism – flexible approach to society with decisionsmade on the basis of what works – to cover links betweenpragmatism and traditional conservative and one-nationphilosophy tradition – accumulated wisdom of
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