100 ideological statements answered on a six-point scale. Every position is asked twice with opposite framing, so your results show where you land, which ideologies you match, and how much wording bends your answers.
You take a position on sharp political and ideological statements using a six-point agreement scale. Key positions appear twice with opposite framing, once sympathetic and once critical. How much your answer shifts between the two framings becomes your framing bias score.
The result shows how closely your answers match each position across all issues, not just the ones you feel strongly about. You might find you align with a party or ideology you didn't expect, or that you're genuinely split between two.
This is the general version of the test. It asks about the arguments that recur in almost every democracy, such as how much the state should redistribute, how far personal freedom should extend, who belongs to the political community, and how much authority institutions should hold. Because it is not tied to one country, it places you on the two axes without mapping you onto a specific ballot paper.
The economic axis runs from collective provision to private allocation. Toward one end sit public ownership, progressive taxation, and a broad welfare state; toward the other sit private property, market pricing, and a smaller state. The governance axis runs from individual liberty and pluralism to collective order and central authority. It captures how much a state should be able to constrain behaviour in the name of security, tradition, or social cohesion.
The two are genuinely independent. Someone can want extensive redistribution alongside strong civil liberties, or free markets alongside restrictive social policy. A single left-to-right line cannot describe either person, which is why the compass uses two dimensions.
The same words carry different meanings across borders. Liberal describes a centre-left position in North America and a market-liberal, often centre-right one across much of Europe and Australia. A policy that is uncontroversial in one country, such as universal healthcare or compulsory voting, is a live partisan fight in another.
The country tests are therefore built separately, against the parties and the actual arguments of each system, rather than translated from a single master version. If one covers where you live, it will place you more precisely than this one can. If none does, this test gives you the underlying position without the national mapping.
Your position is a summary of how you answered a finite set of questions on one day. It is a starting point for reflection, not a label or a diagnosis. Read it alongside the ideology guides to see which traditions your answers sit closest to, and why those traditions argue the way they do.
Select how deep you want to analyze your political alignment and cognitive framing bias.
Provides a fast estimation of your political coordinates and general alignment.
Our standard length. Delivers a reliable political quadrant and detailed cognitive framing analysis.
Deep ideological dive. Analyzes edge cases, complex policy tradeoffs, and full bias metrics.
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