Political Compass is a 2 dimensional representation of a person’s political stance. It takes the response to 61 political propositions to build up a picture of attitudes. It is well worth doing the tests yourself. I come out, predictably, with a score of Economic Left/Right: 4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54. This puts me in the bottom right quadrant which is an unusual place to be as many people who dislike the left tend to be authoritarian, whereas I am a libertarian who can see socialism for the disease that it is.
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I got:
Economic Left/Right: 4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08
However, a lot of the questions don’t have a clear answer, or may give a misleading result, so I’m not entirely convinced of the accuracy of this test. It could be a useful guide, though.