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PoliticsQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Wales Politics syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Government and Politics of the USA (A2 Unit 4)
- Congress: the structure and powers of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the legislative process, the committee system, and how effectively Congress legislates and checks the President.4Q&A pairs
- The US Constitution and federalism: the principles of the Constitution, the separation of powers and checks and balances, the amendment process, and the development of federalism.5Q&A pairs
- The presidency: the formal and informal powers of the President, the cabinet and EXOP, the limits on presidential power, and debates about the strength of the office.5Q&A pairs
- The Supreme Court and civil rights: the role and power of the Court, judicial review, the appointment process, judicial activism and restraint, and the Court's impact on civil rights.3Q&A pairs
- US elections, parties and pressure groups: the presidential election process, the two-party system, the ideas of the Democrats and Republicans, and the role and influence of pressure groups.3Q&A pairs
Government in Wales and the UK (AS Unit 1)
- Devolution and the government of Wales: the creation and development of the Senedd, its powers, the Welsh Government, and the strengths and limits of the devolution settlement.6Q&A pairs
- Parliament: the composition and functions of the House of Commons and House of Lords, the legislative process, and how effectively Parliament scrutinises the executive.6Q&A pairs
- The judiciary and civil liberties: the role and independence of the Supreme Court, judicial review, the Human Rights Act, and how effectively the judiciary protects rights and checks the executive.5Q&A pairs
- The UK constitution: its nature as uncodified and unentrenched, its sources, the doctrines of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law, and debates about reform.7Q&A pairs
- The UK executive: the Prime Minister, Cabinet and core executive, the powers of the Prime Minister, collective and individual ministerial responsibility, and debates about prime ministerial power.5Q&A pairs
Living and Participating in a Democracy (AS Unit 2)
- Democracy and participation: direct and representative democracy, the features of UK democracy, the forms of political participation, and debates about a participation crisis and reform.4Q&A pairs
- Elections and electoral systems: the functions of elections, first-past-the-post and the proportional and mixed systems used in the UK, and debates about which system is fairest.4Q&A pairs
- Political parties: their functions, the main UK and Welsh parties and their ideas, the nature of the party system, and debates about party funding and party decline.5Q&A pairs
- Pressure groups: their types and methods, the factors that determine their influence, and debates about whether they strengthen or distort democracy.5Q&A pairs
- Voting behaviour and the media: long-term and short-term factors that influence how people vote, the decline of class voting, and the role and influence of the media in elections.5Q&A pairs
Political Concepts and Theories (A2 Unit 3)
- Conservatism: its core ideas of tradition, human imperfection, pragmatism, organic society and property, and the differences between traditional conservatism and the New Right.3Q&A pairs
- Key political concepts: power, authority, legitimacy and sovereignty, their meaning and types, and how they relate to rights, equality and the state.6Q&A pairs
- Liberalism: its core ideas of the individual, freedom, the state, rationalism and equality, and the differences between classical and modern liberalism.4Q&A pairs
- Nationalism: its core ideas of the nation, self-determination, identity and sovereignty, and the differences between liberal, conservative, expansionist and anti-colonial nationalism.6Q&A pairs
- Socialism: its core ideas of community, cooperation, equality, social class and common ownership, and the differences between revolutionary socialism, social democracy and the third way.4Q&A pairs