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PoliticsMatchYour Political PhilosophyThe 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 populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:
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Personal Score | 50% | |
Economic Score | 68% |
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 .
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Personal Score
This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's personal lives. Personal issues include health, love, recreation, prayer and other activities that are not measured in dollars.
Economic Score
This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's economic lives. Economic issues include retirement funding, budget allocations, and taxes.
Examples
The chart below indicates how four "hard-core" political philosophers would answer the questions. From this example, you can see how you fit in with each philosophy. Your answers are on the left.
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= Strongly Support = Support = No Opinion = Oppose = Strongly Oppose
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Personal Issues | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
Abortion Is a Woman's Right | |||||
Sexual Orientation Protected By Civil Rights Law | |||||
Teach Family Values in Public Schools | |||||
Death Penalty | |||||
Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | |||||
Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It | |||||
Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services | |||||
The Patriot Act harms civil liberties | |||||
Illegal immigrants earn citizenship | |||||
US out of Iraq and Afghanistan | |||||
= Strongly Support = Support = No Opinion = Oppose = Strongly Oppose
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Economic Issues | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities | |||||
More Federal Funding For Health Coverage | |||||
Privatize Social Security | |||||
Replace coal and oil with alternatives | |||||
Make taxation more progressive | |||||
Support and Expand Free Trade | |||||
Absolute Right To Gun Ownership | |||||
You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist | |
= Strongly Support = Support = No Opinion = Oppose = Strongly Oppose
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Issues Not Counted In Philosophy | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
Parents Choose Schools Via Vouchers | |||||
More Spending On Armed Forces | |||||
Stricter limits on political campaign funds | |||||
You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist | |
= Strongly Support = Support = No Opinion = Oppose = Strongly Oppose
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Final Notes
To ensure balance among political viewpoints, we arranged the wording of the questions so that half the time, the answer involving more government is answered by "support", and half the time by "oppose." Hence, each of the "hard core" philosophers would choose "support" for 3 or 4 of the Personal questions and for 3 or 4 of the Economic questions.
There are four questions which are not counted in your political philosophy. Those questions do not fit this theory -- for example, Democrats typically oppose unrestricted gun ownership, while a 'hard core liberal' would support it on grounds of the government not intervening in a personal issue. These omissions ensure that the theoretical definitions match with current-day politics.
Many of these statements cross over the line between personal issues and economic issues. And many people might answer what we call a "Personal" issue based on economic reasoning. But we have tried to arrange a series of questions which separates the way you think about government activities in these two broad scales. Political Map and some content from Advocates for Self-Government. |
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