Core Political Ideas: understand political thinking

Study Politics is the online learning platform built for A Level Politics students to master political thinking. We have resources in a range of multimedia formats, including video, audio and text. This means that no matter how you like to learn, we have resources for you. You can also track of your progress with each topic, and learn with engaging course notes, video lessons, and in-depth materials like case studies. These can be accessed at any time from a laptop, tablet, or mobile. Our resources are easy to read and keep you engaged to learn more about the political world. As our resources are available online, they are always kept up-to-date. So if there’s a new update or example to include, you can be sure that we’ll update our Core Political Ideas content so you have the latest updates available. Within our Core Political Ideas course, you will look at three ideologies. The study of the three core ideas of politics, conservatism, liberalism and socialism, will explore how these three ideologies have changed over time, from old to new. You will also study the impact of these ideologies on attitudes surrounding human nature, the state, society and the economy.