Where do you sit on the political spectrum?
Answer 20 statements to see your economic and social position. You can then choose whether to continue to an optional extended political profile.
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Your result
Socially conservative
Government-oriented
Conservative economic left
Conservative economic right
Progressive economic left
Progressive economic right
Government-oriented
Market-oriented
Market-oriented
Socially progressive
Your other political outlooks
Each outlook is scored independently from low to high emphasis. Paired priorities can both be high, both be low or differ substantially, and do not change your compass position.
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Respondent positions
Responses Average
Socially conservative
Government-oriented
Conservative economic leftConservative economic rightProgressive economic leftProgressive economic right
Government-orientedMarket-oriented
Market-oriented
Socially progressive
Each point represents one score position. Where respondents share the same position, they are grouped into one point.
Distribution
Responses by quadrant
Political outlooks
Average political outlooks
Economic and Social include every matching compass response. The ten optional outlooks are independently scored and use respondents who answered the extended questions; their response count is shown for context.
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Question-by-question responses
Respondent profile
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Where you sit among respondents
See how your Political Compass position and outlook scores compare with valid respondents to this questionnaire. These comparisons describe respondents, not the wider population.
Socially conservative
Government-oriented
Conservative economic left
Conservative economic right
Progressive economic left
Progressive economic right
Government-oriented
Market-oriented
You
Market-oriented
Socially progressive
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