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Political Concepts and Theories (A2 Unit 3)
Quick questions on Nationalism: core ideas and types - WJEC A-Level Government and Politics
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What is the nation?Show answer
This distinction explains why nationalism can be inclusive and tolerant in one form and exclusive and chauvinistic in another.
What is the types of nationalism?Show answer
Nationalism attaches to strikingly different politics.
What are the same principle, opposite outcomes?Show answer
The question of nationalism's coherence is sharpened by the principle of self-determination. In its liberal and anti-colonial forms, self-determination is a liberating idea: it justifies a people freeing itself from foreign or colonial rule and governing itself, and it can be tolerant and inclusive through a civic conception of the nation. In its expansionist form, the same nationalist energy becomes aggressive, asserting national superiority and seeking to dominate others, often resting on an exclusive ethnic conception.
What is q1?Show answer
What is national self-determination? [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is the difference between civic and ethnic nationalism? [4 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
To what extent is nationalism a single, coherent ideology? [25 marks]
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