In response to yesterday’s post about websites that will calculate
your ideology for you, Nels Lindahl
emailed me about a site called The
Political Compass. This is the most sophisticated and thoughtful
example of the genre, in my opinion. One of its great virtues is its
two-dimensional understanding of ideology, which is much better than
a simple left-right scale. I took the quiz and came out as a moderately
leftist social libertarian, similar to Nelson Mandela and the Dalai
Lama. I’m happy to accept that score.
See also the excellent American Choices site (http://www.AmericanChoices.org), which can determine your views of foreign policy. It’s a sophisticated instrument developed by E-The People in connection with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and PBS’s “By the People” project.