Politics study guides

A deep-dive SQA Higher Politics guide to the assignment and the assessment skills. Covers the independent research assignment and how it is produced, the two question papers and how they test the content and source-handling skills, and how the marks combine into the course award.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Politics guide to the Political Parties and Elections section. Covers the role and ideologies of the main UK and Scottish parties, the strategies of political campaign management, and the theories of voting behaviour, with the long-term and short-term factors that decide elections.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Politics guide to the Political Systems section. Covers the five systems candidates can study (the UK, Scotland, the USA, the European Union and China), comparing their constitutions, executives, legislatures, electoral systems and how power is scrutinised.

A deep-dive SQA Higher Politics guide to the Political Theory section. Covers the concepts of power, authority and legitimacy, the meaning of democracy and the direct versus representative debate, and the five ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism and fascism) with their key thinkers.