Free Ideology Compass, 36 Questions

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.