Original 36-item questionnaire; not politicalcompass.org’s instrument or item set.
Find where you land on two independent axes — economic (left to right) and social (libertarian to authoritarian) — from 36 original statements. Instant quadrant result, no signup required.
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Two independent axes: an economic axis from Left (redistribution, public services, collective solutions) to Right (free markets, low taxes, minimal intervention), and a social axis from Libertarian (personal freedom, limited state authority over private life) to Authoritarian (a strong state, order, and tradition). Your combined position on both axes sets your quadrant archetype.
It uses the same general idea — that economic and social ideology are two separate axes, not one — which is a widely used framework with no single owner, popularized by several different instruments over the decades. The Ideology Compass is JobCannon’s own instrument: 36 original statements written for this test, not a reproduction of any other site’s specific questions.
Libertarian Left (favors economic redistribution and public services, paired with strong personal freedom and skepticism of state control over private life), Libertarian Right (favors free markets and low taxes, paired with strong personal freedom), Authoritarian Left (favors economic redistribution, paired with a strong, decisive state), and Authoritarian Right (favors free markets, paired with a strong state on order and tradition). Your combined score places you closest to one.
Taking it is free and your quadrant result appears on screen instantly, with no signup required. The detailed axis-by-axis breakdown, including your precise X/Y coordinates and how consistent your views are within each axis, is part of Premium.
Find where you land on two independent axes — economic (left to right) and social (libertarian to authoritarian) — from 36 original statements. Instant quadrant result, no signup required.
The Ideology Compass is a 36-question, JobCannon-built self-placement instrument that reads two independent axes of political and social outlook. The economic axis runs from Left (favoring redistribution, public services, and collective solutions) to Right (favoring free markets, low taxes, and minimal economic intervention). The social axis runs from Libertarian (favoring personal freedom and skepticism of state authority over private life) to Authoritarian (favoring a strong, decisive state, order, and tradition).
This two-axis model — crossing an economic left-right dimension with a social libertarian-authoritarian dimension — is a general framework popularized independently by several instruments and going back to academic two-dimensional ideology research from the 1950s. It exists precisely because a single left-right label collapses two genuinely separate questions (how should the economy be run, and how much authority should the state have over individual life) into one axis, hiding combinations like free-market social liberals or state-planning traditionalists.
Every one of the 36 statements here was freshly written for JobCannon — 18 economic statements and 18 social statements, alternately worded so agreeing and disagreeing both carry signal. Your result plots an X/Y position and names the closest of four quadrant archetypes: Libertarian Left, Libertarian Right, Authoritarian Left, or Authoritarian Right. No archetype is framed as correct — the tool exists to make your own position legible, not to rank it.
Your exact placement on the economic axis, from Left to Right
Your exact placement on the social axis, from Libertarian to Authoritarian
Which of the 4 quadrant archetypes you land in, and how strongly
Where your economic and social views pull in the same direction, and where they diverge
Plain-English language for a position that a single left-right label usually flattens
Businesses generally perform better with less government interference in how they operate.
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Original 36-item questionnaire; not politicalcompass.org’s instrument or item set.
Find where you land on two independent axes — economic (left to right) and social (libertarian to authoritarian) — from 36 original statements. Instant quadrant result, no signup required.
No signup needed — your result appears instantly.
Two independent axes: an economic axis from Left (redistribution, public services, collective solutions) to Right (free markets, low taxes, minimal intervention), and a social axis from Libertarian (personal freedom, limited state authority over private life) to Authoritarian (a strong state, order, and tradition). Your combined position on both axes sets your quadrant archetype.
It uses the same general idea — that economic and social ideology are two separate axes, not one — which is a widely used framework with no single owner, popularized by several different instruments over the decades. The Ideology Compass is JobCannon’s own instrument: 36 original statements written for this test, not a reproduction of any other site’s specific questions.
Libertarian Left (favors economic redistribution and public services, paired with strong personal freedom and skepticism of state control over private life), Libertarian Right (favors free markets and low taxes, paired with strong personal freedom), Authoritarian Left (favors economic redistribution, paired with a strong, decisive state), and Authoritarian Right (favors free markets, paired with a strong state on order and tradition). Your combined score places you closest to one.
Taking it is free and your quadrant result appears on screen instantly, with no signup required. The detailed axis-by-axis breakdown, including your precise X/Y coordinates and how consistent your views are within each axis, is part of Premium.
