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[[Category:Brainstorming]]What other dimensions might be significant in measuring political ideology? | [[Category:Brainstorming]]What other dimensions might be significant in measuring political ideology? | ||
| − | * willingness to reopen discussion of ''existing'' solutions (as opposed to just solving ''new'' problems), in different arenas (e.g. social, as in marriage laws; infrastructure, as in power generation - liberals don't want to reconsider nuclear as an option, for example) | + | * <u>willingness to reopen discussion of ''existing'' solutions</u> (as opposed to just solving ''new'' problems), in different arenas (e.g. social, as in marriage laws; infrastructure, as in power generation - liberals don't want to reconsider nuclear as an option, for example) |
| − | * importance of studying doctrine vs. use of reasoning (Pournelle box only charts reason vs. irrationality - is "belief in an incorruptible doctrine" a form of irrationality? If so, is it the ''only'' form?) | + | * importance of <u>studying doctrine</u> ("doctrinality"?) vs. use of <u>reasoning</u> (Pournelle box only charts reason vs. irrationality - is "belief in an incorruptible doctrine" a form of irrationality? If so, is it the ''only'' form?) |
| − | * preference for superior-inferior (usually hierarchical) power relationships, as opposed to peer-peer | + | * preference for <u>superior-inferior (usually hierarchical)</u> power relationships, as opposed to <u>peer-peer</u> |
| + | * belief that the human condition <u>can be improved</u> (however slowly) vs. the idea of a <u>golden past</u> to which we can only aspire to one day return (usually by following the rules laid out in some ancient doctrine; this tends to go together with doctrinality) | ||
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The quantifying of all political ideologies as falling somewhere in a "left-right" spectrum is generally misleading and appears to arise largely from a short-lived circumstance of seating in the French National Assembly in the 18th century[1]. Other systems have been proposed, generally using two or more dimensions.
Political Spectra
- Nolan chart: [personal freedom] x [economic freedom]
- Pournelle chart: [belief in reason] x [belief in a State]
References
- The Pournelle Political Axes (1986)
Brainstorming
What other dimensions might be significant in measuring political ideology?
- willingness to reopen discussion of existing solutions (as opposed to just solving new problems), in different arenas (e.g. social, as in marriage laws; infrastructure, as in power generation - liberals don't want to reconsider nuclear as an option, for example)
- importance of studying doctrine ("doctrinality"?) vs. use of reasoning (Pournelle box only charts reason vs. irrationality - is "belief in an incorruptible doctrine" a form of irrationality? If so, is it the only form?)
- preference for superior-inferior (usually hierarchical) power relationships, as opposed to peer-peer
- belief that the human condition can be improved (however slowly) vs. the idea of a golden past to which we can only aspire to one day return (usually by following the rules laid out in some ancient doctrine; this tends to go together with doctrinality)