AQA A-level POLITICS Paper 2 Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics

A-level
POLITICS
Paper 2 Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics


Thursday 4 June 2020 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
 an AQA 12-page answer book.

Instructions
 Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
 Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7152/2.
 Answer all questions from Section A and Section B.
 Answer either Question 5 or Question 6 from Section C.
 Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be
marked.
 If you use more than one answer book, check that you have written the
information required on each book.

Information
 The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
 The maximum mark for this paper is 77.




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Section A – US Government, politics and comparative theory

Answer questions 1, 2 and 3.



0 1Explain and analyse three roles performed by US congressional committees.
[9 marks]



0 2 Explain and analyse three ways in which the US political system
encourages pressure group activity.
[9 marks]


Explain and analyse three ways that rational theory could be used
0 3
to explain voting behaviour in the US and UK.
[9 marks]




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