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A subscription to Politics Review will give students the best possible opportunity to:

  • Master key concepts and topics at AS and A2 beyond what textbooks offer
  • Stretch and challenge their understanding through topical, relevant and thought-provoking articles
  • Achieve the top grades and develop key skills through Politics Review’s extensive stimulus material

Each 36-page issue of Politics Review explores key topics on the new AS and current A2 specifications through specially commissioned articles. Each article:

  • includes an exam context box to show how the article relates to either AS or A2 specifications
  • encourages students to apply their understanding of the subject area as required by the specifications
  • suggests further questions through an exam focus section

Regular columns develop students’ skills. These include:

  • What’s new?
  • In focus
  • US update
  • Fact file
  • Success at NEW AS
  • Achieve at A2

Politics Review is published four times a year in September, November, February and April. The subscriptions rates for this volume have been frozen, so, once you place an institutional order at the full rate of £26.95, students will be able to subscribe at the greatly reduced rate of just £12.50.

Order 5 or more subscriptions, and we will send you a free copy of The Chambers Dictionary, worth £35.

Editorial board

  • Chair John Benyon
  • Commissioning Editors Philip Lynch and Eric Magee
  • Editorial assistant Isobel Woodliffe

Department of Politics
University of Leicester
128 Regent Road
Leicester LE1 7PA
Tel: 0116 252 5914
Fax: 0116 252 5909

 

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  • Send a school purchase order and we will invoice your institution

You will be sent order forms for additional subscriptions with subsequent issues of the magazine, so you can add reduced rate subscriptions at any time through the school/college year. Back issues will be supplied automatically for all subscriptions placed after publication of the first issue of the volume.

Please note: only orders for a complete volume (four issues), commencing with the September issue, will be accepted.

To thank you for your invaluable work collecting orders, we will add one free reduced rate subscription for every 15 orders placed. These free copies are sent automatically.

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Volume 18

Issue 1: September 2008

Issue 2: November 2008

Issue 3: February 2009

Issue 4: April 2009

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February 2009

Politics Review - February 2009 cover

Contents:

Articles

The 2008 US presidential election: all change?
Robert Singh

Women’s representation in Parliament
Sarah Childs and Rosie Campbell

Judges in the modern British constitution
Andrew Le Sueur

The presidential controversy in Britain
Michael Foley

Anarchism, socialism and utopia
Robert Garner

Britain’s multiparty systems
Philip Lynch

Columns

What’s new?
Ministerial accountability: it’s Balls; Cabinet changes;
Glenrothes and beyond: a chance for redemption?

US update
The results of the 2008 congressional elections

AS concept
Codified and uncodified constitutions

Success at NEW AS
How to revise for the new AS units

Achieve at A2
Edexcel Government and Politics
How to write a good Political Ideologies essay

In focus
The 2008 US elections

April 2009

Politics Review - April 2009 cover

Contents:

Articles

Feminism and difference
John Hoffman

Where does power lie in the European Union?
Richard Whitaker and Philip Lynch

Devolution in the UK: what’s wrong with the status quo?
Charlie Jeffery

Do by-elections matter?
2008 by-elections evaluated
Paul Fairclough and Eric Magee

Why are US congressional committees so important?
Anthony Batchelor

Does the US Constitution work?
Anthony J. Bennett

Columns

Success at new AS
OCR Government and Politics
Unit F851 Contemporary Politics of the UK
Unit F852 Contemporary Government of the UK

What’s new?
Crunch time; The Lisbon Treaty: does no always mean no?;
Understanding the boundaries

AS concept
Collective and individual ministerial responsibility

US update
Presidential transitions

Index to Volume 18

In focus
Crime in England and Wales