2023-05-11 21:42:14
Las political compasses they still fail to interpret voters in all their complexity. The tests that serve to classify individuals according to their political position they tend to be simplistic, clichés and inaccurate stereotypes. Despite this, they are usually a useful tool as systems for the multifactorial application of political theory and show that voting for political parties depends more on nuances than on open sources of conflict. Despite this, there are elements that can make the position of the individual change and be able to superimpose some aspects on others and that is the game that electoral campaigns aspire to. Chapters that directly affect may be the trigger for vote change, regardless of the assumed political universe that defines the voter. Pending the use of Artificial Intelligence in the analysis of the vote, the tests accessible on the Internet continue to show little adaptation to the times and apply more topics than interpreting deep opinion statements.
The basic axes of the policy
Most internet political compasses establish positioning parameters between two crossed axes, which are admitted by theorists as fundamental when it comes to defining the political position of each one. On the one hand, there is the line drawn by the idea that the individual has of the State and the Government. It is the imaginary axis between extreme liberalism and communitarianism. On the other hand, there is the traditional axis between left and right (progressivism-conservatism). Political theory comes to order what the individual thinks for himself and for the community. Within the framework of that personal doubt, in the balance between the public and the private, personal interests and social ethics, the citizen decides his vote.
reference topics
The themes used for political compasses are typically the individual position on immigration, religious freedom, free enterprise, or economic solidarity. It is also intended to define the political position before the concept of nationalism. The fervent position of the voter with respect to his nation tends to place him, according to most compasses, more in the orbit of the right than of the left, but it is a much-discussed element. Semantics is also relevant. Like the one aired these days by the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, when she was troubled when asked about the concept of ‘social justice’, more championed by the left than by the right, but defensible by any voter.
Simplismo ‘made in USA’
the compass of Idrlabsfor example, errs on the faults of any expert system based on simplisms extremes, through only 36 questions. Despite this, the fundamental definitions of the profiles, summarized in four large groups of voters, are of some interest. It summarizes the political profiles to four; left-liberalist, right-wing communitarian, left-wing communitarian and right-wing liberalist. The definition of the liberal left has not been much exploited by Western parties, although it may overlap with that of a social libertarian or philo-anarchist.
political complexityThe Political Compass He also plays to provoke with his test. Confusion is played and the answers contain elements of doubt. While in Idrlabs they ask point-blank questions such as whether it is agreed to allow suicide legally, in The Political Compass they ask about “-from each according to their ability, to each according to their need- is it a fundamentally good idea? “. There is no room for abstentions, in most tests, and perhaps some final error or conflicts of self-complacency of the test taker may be derived from this. The key element of any questionnaire that inquires about the position before the richest fellow citizens and the appropriate policies around taxes. The question is of the type “Do you agree that people with more money have access to a better level of health protection?”. Issues such as abortion, religious freedom, the position towards sex or sexual freedom define the political position.
Liberalism and authoritarianism
But the authors of The Political Compass warn that a country can be very liberal from an economic point of view and be authoritarian at the same time. Singapore is a perfect example. He Index of Economic Freedom produced by ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and the conservative Heritage Foundation hailed Singapore as the most economically free nation on Earth. However, from a socio-cultural point of view, Human Rights Watch views Singapore as a deeply authoritarian (right-wing) state. The line between left and right is a curve whose ends tend to come together from some points of view.
Diagrams by Nolan and de Pournelletestpolitico.com he faces the challenge of political positioning with issues that are also simple but somewhat closer to the Spanish citizen. Although in need of updating on some issue, especially regarding military service or the attitude towards unions, it defines the final quadrant of political position with other terms, translating left as progressive and right as conservative. It is in any case the same diagram of the American David Nolan, created in 1969, to combine economic opinion and personal opinion. Another cartesian and too rigid solution. The Pournelle graph also provides extra information, with greater weight given to the opinion about the State when it comes to drawing the political position of the individual.
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the weirdest people
Another way of approaching the analysis of today’s society is the one that addresses Joseph Henrich in his book ‘The strangest people in the world’, in which he draws that in Western countries the profile of individualists, self-obsessed, control-oriented, non-conformist and analytical is common. Those characteristics would make them considered ‘rare’ in most of the world, but they are normal in the West. The weight of what they will say also influences the political position, but in Western societies this is more flexible and permeable to changes. Despite this, whether due to guilt or shame, some personal positions in the face of political dilemmas change. Culture, institutions and psychology shape each other and are ultimately channeled in the form of voting.
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