Browsing around some political news weblogs I found a link to The Political Compass site. I’ve talked with friends many times about the incorrection of the old terms “left” and “right” in modern-day politics (try to position your country’s parties in one or the other side, let’s see what you find)
Anyway, both the test, the explanations and the sample graphics (such as this one with the US elections) are pretty amusing… give it a try!
Leading by example, this was my result:
A year ago I found this page. I was more near of centre than you, but very similar to your position.
hey! You should have posted about it, I found it quite interesting. I normally don’t like the typical tests in blogs, but this one is actually “relevant” };D
I thought that ‘right’ and ‘left’ were exclusive term from spain. My position is four square to right than yours.
Actually, the “left-right” political meaning is not only Spanish. It comes from the seating arrangements on the French Assembly (1791) where the most “conservative” (or moderate) party used to sit on the right of the meeting hall and the most liberal (or radical) party did it on the left. However, if you read more about it (p.e. in Wikipedia) you’ll see that, even then, people switched from one side to the other… left-right is not an absolute term…
Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26
Red dot at (0, -2)
Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08
Slightly more to the right than you, somewhat more libertarian.