A-level
POLITICS
Paper 3 Political ideas
Tuesday 10 June 2025 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours
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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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POLITICS
Paper 3 Political ideas
Tuesday 10 June 2025 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours
7152/3
, 2
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]
IB/G/Jun25/7152/3
, 3
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
Turn over ►
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