This title examines the history and modern day role of political parties in the UK political system. It looks at how the two-party system developed, how different political parties have different ideologies and the importance of having different political parties in a modern democracy. An activity at the end aims to encourage the reader to think about what they have read and to critically assess for themselves how effective the party system is. This book should provide a useful resource for the Key Stage 3 Citizenship National Curriculum, where young people should be taught about the key characteristics of parliamentary government.

 

This book is part of a book series called Young Citizens Guides .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a guide book. This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

Pat Levy is an experienced writer of non-fiction books for young people, specialising in 20th century history.