ACTUAL 2025 AQA A-LEVEL POLITICS Paper 3 Political Ideas
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Section A – Core Ideologies Short Questions
Answer questions 1, 2 and 3.
0 1 Socialism
Explain and analyse three ways in which socialist thinkers view the methods of achieving
socialism.
[9 marks]
0 2 Liberalism
Explain and analyse three ways in which liberal thinkers view capitalism.
[9 marks]
0 3 Conservatism
Explain and analyse three ways in which conservative thinkers view private property.
[9 marks]
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Section B – Core Ideologies Extract Question
Read the extracts below and answer question 4 that follows.
The nature of conservatism and society Extract 1
Robert Nozick on individualism
Nozick made the individual, and his rights to life, liberty and property, fundamental. No more than a
minimal state was warranted for protecting its members from violence, theft and breach of contract,
and ensuring the just acquisition and transfer of property, while not interfering in the right to pursue
one’s own ends. Nozick condemned ‘distributive justice’ as implying that society has resources to
distribute, whereas only individuals do, and are entitled to hold or transfer them.
What can be happier for all parties, he argued in a characteristically vivid example, than the way the
famous basketball player Wilt Chamberlain sells his skills – making a much larger than average income
– and his audience pay 25 cents each to watch him, rather than spending that amount on movies,
magazines or candy bars. ‘From each as they chose, to each as they are chosen,’ was Nozick’s
rewriting of Karl Marx.
Extract adapted from an obituary of Nozick in The Guardian newspaper, 2002. Extract 2
Burke on society
For Burke, the best life begins in the ‘little platoons’ – family, church, and local community – these
guide men toward virtues such as temperance and fortitude. It is in the local and particular that we are
able to live justly. In seeing political life as best conducted within an order of particular habits and
presumptions – specifically, the order of the British Constitution – Burke resisted the attempts of some
of his contemporaries to study man as if he could be viewed in isolation, apart from all the trappings of
society.
Extract from a website developed by The Foundation for Constitutional Government, a conservative
organisation in the USA.
0 4 Analyse, evaluate and compare the arguments made in the above extracts on the nature of
conservatism in society. In your answer you should refer to the thinkers that you have
studied.
[25 marks]
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Section C – Other Ideologies Essay Question
Answer the question set on one of the following ideologies.
In your answer you should draw on material from across the whole range of your course of study in
Politics.
Either
0 5 Nationalism
‘Nationalist thinkers have no common set of principles.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement
with reference to the nationalist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 6 Feminism
‘The main aim of feminism should be to remove gender distinctions within the home, not just
in society.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the feminist thinkers that
you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 7 Multiculturalism
‘The state should promote the rights of individuals, rather than of groups, to develop
identity.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the multiculturalist
thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 8 Anarchism
‘The institutions of the state cannot be removed peacefully.’ Analyse and evaluate this
statement with reference to the anarchist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 9 Ecologism
‘Economic growth is in conflict with protecting the planet.’ Analyse and evaluate this
statement with reference to the ecologist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
END OF QUESTIONS
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Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged)
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Section A – Core Ideologies Short Questions
Answer questions 1, 2 and 3.
0 1 Socialism
Explain and analyse three ways in which socialist thinkers view the methods of achieving
socialism.
[9 marks]
0 2 Liberalism
Explain and analyse three ways in which liberal thinkers view capitalism.
[9 marks]
0 3 Conservatism
Explain and analyse three ways in which conservative thinkers view private property.
[9 marks]
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Section B – Core Ideologies Extract Question
Read the extracts below and answer question 4 that follows.
The nature of conservatism and society Extract 1
Robert Nozick on individualism
Nozick made the individual, and his rights to life, liberty and property, fundamental. No more than a
minimal state was warranted for protecting its members from violence, theft and breach of contract,
and ensuring the just acquisition and transfer of property, while not interfering in the right to pursue
one’s own ends. Nozick condemned ‘distributive justice’ as implying that society has resources to
distribute, whereas only individuals do, and are entitled to hold or transfer them.
What can be happier for all parties, he argued in a characteristically vivid example, than the way the
famous basketball player Wilt Chamberlain sells his skills – making a much larger than average income
– and his audience pay 25 cents each to watch him, rather than spending that amount on movies,
magazines or candy bars. ‘From each as they chose, to each as they are chosen,’ was Nozick’s
rewriting of Karl Marx.
Extract adapted from an obituary of Nozick in The Guardian newspaper, 2002. Extract 2
Burke on society
For Burke, the best life begins in the ‘little platoons’ – family, church, and local community – these
guide men toward virtues such as temperance and fortitude. It is in the local and particular that we are
able to live justly. In seeing political life as best conducted within an order of particular habits and
presumptions – specifically, the order of the British Constitution – Burke resisted the attempts of some
of his contemporaries to study man as if he could be viewed in isolation, apart from all the trappings of
society.
Extract from a website developed by The Foundation for Constitutional Government, a conservative
organisation in the USA.
0 4 Analyse, evaluate and compare the arguments made in the above extracts on the nature of
conservatism in society. In your answer you should refer to the thinkers that you have
studied.
[25 marks]
Turn over for the next question
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Section C – Other Ideologies Essay Question
Answer the question set on one of the following ideologies.
In your answer you should draw on material from across the whole range of your course of study in
Politics.
Either
0 5 Nationalism
‘Nationalist thinkers have no common set of principles.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement
with reference to the nationalist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 6 Feminism
‘The main aim of feminism should be to remove gender distinctions within the home, not just
in society.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the feminist thinkers that
you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 7 Multiculturalism
‘The state should promote the rights of individuals, rather than of groups, to develop
identity.’ Analyse and evaluate this statement with reference to the multiculturalist
thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 8 Anarchism
‘The institutions of the state cannot be removed peacefully.’ Analyse and evaluate this
statement with reference to the anarchist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
or
0 9 Ecologism
‘Economic growth is in conflict with protecting the planet.’ Analyse and evaluate this
statement with reference to the ecologist thinkers that you have studied.
[25 marks]
END OF QUESTIONS
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