Political Philosophy Test

[TheGiftofWork]

This test is much better than other political tests. 4 possible answers for each question and you can click on the question to see elaborately what your answer means.

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/XPolitics/start.asp

MODERATE POPULIST


Personal 32%
Economic 26%

[SolitaryWalker]

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PoliticsMatch
Your Political Philosophy
The below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!
Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.


Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 45%
Economic Score 32%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Liberal Populist .

[Chaselation]

Your Political Philosophy

The below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your

PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!

Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 62%
Economic Score 60%
Where You Fit In
Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Libertarian .

[abweichend]

Personal Score 72%
Economic Score 41%
Moderate Libertarian Liberal

[Anonymous]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 50%
Economic Score 64%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Libertarian Conservative .

[ApeTheDog]

I'm a populist leaning liberal

I score 63% on the personal issues, and 12% on the economic.

[Dark Razor]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 80%
Economic Score 10%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Hard-Core Liberal :grin:

[prplchknz]

Moderate Liberal Populist

[Kyrielle]

Centrist (leaning towards Liberal)

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 58%
Economic Score 45%

[Methofelis]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 68%
Economic Score 35%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Liberal .

[hereandnow]

Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 61% Economic Score 19%

Where You Fit In
Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Populist-Leaning Liberal .

[Hamro]

Personal Score 79%
Economic Score 16%

Populist-Leaning Liberal .

[demagogic_schizoid]

Personal Score 62%
Economic Score 74%
Moderate Libertarian

good test

[zhang_bob]

Personal Score 54%
Economic Score 6%
Liberal Populist

[helium]

Personal Score: 45%
Economic Score: 22%
Moderate Liberal Populist

[photon]

Personal Score 68%
Economic Score 26%
Moderate Liberal .

[Krill]

Personal Score 66%
Economic Score 98%
Conservative-Leaning Libertarian.

Seems accurate to me!

[demagogic_schizoid]

Personal Score 62%
Economic Score 74%
Moderate Libertarian

good test



Personal Score 66%
Economic Score 98%
Conservative-Leaning Libertarian.

Seems accurate to me!

Their labelling seems flawed.

[Krill]

Their labelling seems flawed.

:confused:

[demagogic_schizoid]

:confused:

you got a higher score than me on personal freedom, but were called conservative leaning, while I wasn't.

[Krill]

you got a higher score than me on personal freedom, but were called conservative leaning, while I wasn't.


Economic Score 74%

Economic Score 98%

I figured it was the economic scores.

Good point.

[slacker]

Personal Score 72%
Economic Score 62%

Moderate Libertarian

[enjoysham]

70% personal
45% economic
Moderate Libertarian Liberal

[Blueberry11]

Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.


Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 81%
Economic Score 75%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Liberal-Leaning Libertarian .

[Arbitrary]

Personal Score 44%
Economic Score 50%

Based on the above score, you are a Centrist .

[Pooja]

Personal Score 68%
Economic Score 68%

you are a Moderate Libertarian .

I knew it!

[Tonks]

Personal Score 58%
Economic Score 6%

Based on the above score, you are a Liberal Populist.


I thought I was a communist...:blink:

[ObtainGnosis]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 85%
Economic Score 19%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Hard-Core Liberal .

[immortalmack]

Personal Score 42%

Economic Score 65%

[rek]

Personal Score 81%
Economic Score 98%

Based on the above score, you are a Hard-Core Libertarian.

Well geez, that was a huge surprise :devil:

[PonderBee]

you are a Liberal Populist

Personal Score 58%
Economic Score 10%

[mancroft]

Moderate Populist .

[rek]

Maybe I'm just confused.. but some of these answers seem incorrect to me..

Allow churches to provide welfare services: I said strongly agree, just like any true libertarian would, because the government has no right to tell the church what they can or can't do. The test claims libertarians would be strongly opposed to this.

By their own definition: "Strongly Oppose means you believe: Compassion requires us to maintain and fund a federal welfare system. The neediest members of society should have a federally-guaranteed safety net."

That isn't even close to libertarian... it's the exact opposite... what's up with that?

EDIT - after looking closer and reading what "Strongly support" meant, that's not close to libertarian either because it says provide grants to the churches (way different than just allowing them to do it themselves) so I guess I am closer to "oppose" but in reality I think this is just a bad question.

[Dark Razor]

Maybe I'm just confused.. but some of these answers seem incorrect to me..

Allow churches to provide welfare services: I said strongly agree, just like any true libertarian would, because the government has no right to tell the church what they can or can't do. The test claims libertarians would be strongly opposed to this.

By their own definition: "Strongly Oppose means you believe: Compassion requires us to maintain and fund a federal welfare system. The neediest members of society should have a federally-guaranteed safety net."

That isn't even close to libertarian... it's the exact opposite... what's up with that?

EDIT - after looking closer and reading what "Strongly support" meant, that's not close to libertarian either because it says provide grants to the churches (way different than just allowing them to do it themselves) so I guess I am closer to "oppose" but in reality I think this is just a bad question.

I was confused by that question as well, I would of course allow them to provide welfare on their own, but not instead of a federal safety net, and I would oppose giving grants to them. So I would have to click "oppose" instead of "support"

If I choose that answer differently it makes me a "populist leaning liberal".

[omnirook]

Surprise, surprise - Left Liberal ...

[cut the grass]

Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Liberal .

Personal Score 75%
A high score (above 60%) means you believe in tolerance for different people and lifestyles.

Economic Score 25%
A low score (below 40%) means you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program.

[PonderBee]

Allow churches to provide welfare services: I said strongly agree, just like any true libertarian would, because the government has no right to tell the church what they can or can't do. The test claims libertarians would be strongly opposed to this.


EDIT - after looking closer and reading what "Strongly support" meant, that's not close to libertarian either because it says provide grants to the churches (way different than just allowing them to do it themselves) so I guess I am closer to "oppose" but in reality I think this is just a bad question.


I was confused by that question as well, I would of course allow them to provide welfare on their own, but not instead of a federal safety net, and I would oppose giving grants to them. So I would have to click "oppose" instead of "support"

If I choose that answer differently it makes me a "populist leaning liberal".

The question has to do with a provision of welfare reform called charitable choice. This provision pumps federal dollars into faith based organizations to be doled out to the needy. IMO it allows for discriminatory practices in doling out these funds by the fbo's b/c in order to receive the public assistance/services available through the fbo's one must usually be (become) a member (believer).

[Edit to add] Not to mention that it eats away at the ideal of separation of church and state.

[aries]

I'm an anarchist (mostly capitalist, not "destructive, down with the system" anarchy, just no government)

[TaylorS]

Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 58%
Economic Score 10%

Where You Fit In
Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Liberal Populist .



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[Reflection]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 69%
Economic Score 45%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Libertarian Liberal


Seems about right.

[Niffer]

moderate liberal populist

[Dom]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 66%
Economic Score 26%


Where You Fit In

Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Liberal .

[geniusndisguise]

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:


Personal Score 76%
Economic Score 56%

Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Libertarian Liberal

[Theodoret]

Moderate Liberal

Personal - 70%
Economic - 35%

Mind you, when you see the breakdown its pretty arbitrary. I would love to know what a 'hard core Liberal' is supposed to be. Not sure I recognise John Locke or John Stuart Mill in that profile.

I'm also slightly irritated that the blurb has me supporting a big state.

"you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program"

Er..no. I think the governments purpose is to defend citizens from each other and from foreign aggressors, and to ensure no citizen suffers loss of liberty due to poverty or ignorance. Everything else is unwarranted interferance in people's personal lives.

I do think that people should contribute to the cost of the state in proportion to the money they earn - therefore I don't approve of tax cuts for the rich. Not sure how my views on energy policy or UN influence on foreign policy place me in favour of BIG STATE either.