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Old 08-01-2013, 02:45 PM
 
Location: Finland
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Here's two tests about your political ideologies, the latter based on mostly European politics.

My results were:

Your political compass


Economic Left/Right: 1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44

The second one:

1. You are a social liberal.


2. You are a social democrat.

3. You are a Christian democrat.




Notable European adherents of the second test:

Third way = Denmark, Finland, Germany
Christian democrat: Germany, UK, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania
Classical socialist = none (Moldova with large caution)
Communist = USSR with caution
Fascist = Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Fascist Hungary and Romania
Libertarian conservative = none
Market liberal = UK, The Netherlands, Estonia, Czech Republic, Russia, Belgium
Social democrat = France, Sweden, Norway
Social liberal = France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg
Anarcho-capitalist = none
Ecologist or green = none

Do the tests and share your thoughts...

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Old 08-01-2013, 03:01 PM
 
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Notable European adherents:

Third way = Denmark, Finland, Germany
Social democrat = France, Sweden, Norway
That makes very little sense, at least for me. The current coalition government are socialists, just like in Norway. The Norwegian Progress Party (the second or maybe third largest) is actually more progressive (liberalism) than the DPP (Danish People's Party).
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Old 08-01-2013, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Finland
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That makes very little sense, at least for me. The current coalition government are socialists, just like in Norway. The Norwegian Progress Party (the second or maybe third largest) is actually more progressive (liberalism) than the DPP (Danish People's Party).
Might be on a larger scale, but the Venstre has been the major force in the 2000's and is currently the largest party in Denmark. The Social Democrats are as well the second largest party in Finland, but I found much similarities in what policies the governments implement. And fu*k the Danish People's Party.
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Old 08-01-2013, 05:02 PM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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Where's the link to the test?
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Old 08-01-2013, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Novy Jicin, Czech Republic
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Where's the link to the test?
The link is probably gone. I was looking for it for 5 minutes. I also tried to "refresh" this page but nothing happened. We have to wait for Ariete.
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Old 08-01-2013, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Finland
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WTF, I posted the links in my OP but now they disappeared...

The political compass:
The Political Compass - Test

European political ideologies:
▷ ▶ European Political Ideologies SelectSmart.com free Politics personality test, selector quiz, matching, choose, compare.
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Old 08-01-2013, 08:26 PM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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My political compass score was:

Economic left/right: -6.50
Social libertarian/authoritarian: -7.95

No idea what that means The questions were kind of weird and didn't allow for much nuance. I'm a progressive and pretty much at the political centre when it comes to economics (social-liberal). According to that chart, however, I am WAY to the left, lol. Well I guess I am from an American pov (that is an American website, right?)

European political ideologies test:

1. You are a social liberal
2. You are a social democrat
3. You are an ecologist or green
4. You adhere to the Third Way.
5. You are a market liberal.

Sounds about right. I am a social liberal first and foremost (I scored 100% ).

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Old 08-02-2013, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Paris
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Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

I'm a friggin' leftist.



As for the Euro test...

1. You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues. (100%)

2. Social democrat (93%)
3 tied. Social liberal (82%)
3 tied. Market liberal (82%)
5. Christian democrat (77%)
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Old 08-02-2013, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Finland
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My political compass score was:

Economic left/right: -6.50
Social libertarian/authoritarian: -7.95

No idea what that means The questions were kind of weird and didn't allow for much nuance. I'm a progressive and pretty much at the political centre when it comes to economics (social-liberal). According to that chart, however, I am WAY to the left, lol. Well I guess I am from an American pov (that is an American website, right?)

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Sounds about right. I am a social liberal first and foremost (I scored 100% ).
Yeah, the Political Compass has quite the American questions, like "can you be moral without religion". No gun ownership questions, though.

I consider myself as a social liberal with quite the centrist views on economical issues, but the political compass puts me on the centre-right and moderate liberal scale. Ok, I won't question the economic scale, but the liberal/authoritarian scale seems a bit tough to swallow.
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Old 08-02-2013, 01:19 PM
 
Location: The Netherlands
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Yeah, the Political Compass has quite the American questions, like "can you be moral without religion". No gun ownership questions, though.

I consider myself as a social liberal with quite the centrist views on economical issues, but the political compass puts me on the centre-right and moderate liberal scale. Ok, I won't question the economic scale, but the liberal/authoritarian scale seems a bit tough to swallow.
Same here, and that's how I vote too. According to the Political Compass I'm bordering on communism, though
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