Homework - week 4

Do two of the following:

3 Discuss the view that referendums should be used more often in the United Kingdom. [30]

4 How democratic are elections for the House of Commons? [30]

5 Discuss the view that the decline in turnout at elections is the most important trend in voting behaviour.(30)

Hand-in date: 16 October

Homework - week 3

Make sure you can define all key Politics terms in the syllabus but also that you learn these three:

a. from the Guardian

b. from Interpolitics

c. the non-American ones from here


and when they appear here....

Homework - week 2

Due in on 30 September:

Consider the extent to which short-term factors are now far more important than
long-term factors in shaping voting behaviour.

and

Pressure group activity in the UK presents a major threat to democracy.’ Evaluate the
arguments in favour of this view.

500 words for each

Homework - week 1

Essays:

1. ‘Referendums represent a more democratic form of participation than the opportunity to vote in elections.’ Discuss.

2. A cabinet minister once described pressure groups as creatures which strangle efficient government. Discuss how justified this view is of pressure groups today. (25 marks)

Hand in date: by 21 September 2010