An activity and resource designed for A-level politics students that gets them comparing direct and representative democracy, along with their theoretical advantages and disadvantages - topped and tailed with some discussion activities revolving around the use of referendums and direct democracy - used for the Edexcel exam board.

An introductory lesson to the Edexcel Gov and Politics A-level course. The students discuss recent current affairs that illustrate that democracy is potentially overrated, and are then given a scenario of setting up a new government on a desert island. Prep for that takes one lesson, the next lesson is them presenting their island governments with the rest of the students peer assessing their ideas.