A politics degree will call for strong communication skills, critical thinking, analysis, an interest in social justice, morals, and ethics. You’ll spend a lot of time studying international and historical politics, so a global interest is also a bonus.
Contemporary British Politics and Government
World Poverty and Human Rights
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Key Thinker Texts
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Michael Oakeshott, On Human Conduct (1975)
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)
John Locke, Two Treaties of Government (1690)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Thomas Hill Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (1895) [AQA Only]
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Beatrice Webb, A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain (1920)
Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899)
Anthony Crosland, The Future of Socialism (1956)
Anthony Giddens, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998)
https://www.simplepolitics.co.uk/
https://www.studypolitics.co.uk/a-level-politics-resources/revision-playlist/
Go to Parliament! https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/watch-committees-and-debates/
https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/events-and-seminars/public-lectures
Work experience with the House of Commons
Volunteering with your local MP
https://www.ted.com/talks?sort=newest&topics%5B%5D=politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1q9/episodes/player
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/politicsweekly
https://anchor.fm/nick-de-souza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p039711d
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/essay-prizes/politics/