UK Politics: participation and parties made easy
UK Politics looks at the relationship between people and politics. It examines the nature of our democracy and our participation within it, the political parties that seek to represent us, the different systems of how we choose our representatives, and how our views and opinions are impacted by short- and long-term factors.
Why learn UK Politics with Study Dog?
Variety of formats
From video to text and audio, no matter how you like to learn or revise, we have the resources to help you learn UK Politics.
Achievements & Points
Earn points for completing lessons and quizzes, encouraging you to stay on track with your revision.
Up-to-date resources
Whether it's a new Pressure Group or a fresh General Election, our UK Politics resources are kept up-to-date and fresh.
About our UK Politics course
Study Dog is an online learning platform made for A Level Politics students. We have resources in a range of formats, including video, text and audio. This means that no matter how you like to learn, we have resources for you.
Study Dog also allows you to track your progress, meaning you can log your learning for different topics. Our platform includes engaging revision notes, video lessons, and in-depth materials like case studies and summary grids. These can be accessed at any time from a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Our resources are easy to read and keep you engaged to learn more about the political world.
With our UK Politics course, you will gain an appreciation of how people interact with different political organisations, including pressure groups. It will also focus on today’s main arguments and debates in UK Politics, such as reducing the voting age in elections to 16, and how much of an impact the media has on political behaviour.
Course Outline
- Democracy in Context
- Participation
- The Franchise
- History of the franchise in the UK
- Debates over extending the franchise
- Pressure Groups
- Types of pressure groups
- Methods of pressure groups
- Factors affecting pressure group success
- Pressure group case studies
- Other collective organisations
- Rights in the UK
- Functions of political parties
- The funding of parties
- The Labour Party
- The Conservative Party
- The Liberal Democrats
- Party Structures (AQA)
- Minor and emerging parties
- Party systems
- Factors affecting party success
- The role of elections
- First Past the Post
- Supplementary Vote
- SV Case Study
- Additional Member System
- AMS Case Study
- Single Transferrable Vote
- STV Case Study
- Referendums
- Electoral system analysis
- Long-term factors
- Short-term factors
- 2024 general election
- 2019 general election
- 1997 general election
- 1983 general election
- 1979 general election
- Influence of the media
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Study Dog is built for 21st century Politics students. We know the importance of keeping students engaged. We also know that each student learns in their own way, so we have a wide range of A Level Politics Resources to help you unlock your A* potential.
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