American average political matrix

[Antonio the Sixth]

I think it could be interesting to try to give the country's average political matrix. Also, I tried to make the test giving the answer I think the median american would give. Here are the answers I gave :

Quest #	Av Ans
1	A
2	D
3	A
4	A
5	D
6	A
7	A
8	A
9	D
10	D
11	A
12	A
13	D
14	D
15	SD
16	D
17	D
18	A
19	D
20	SA
21	D
22	D
23	SD
24	A
25	D
26	D
27	D

Legend :
- SA : Strongly agree
- A : Agree
- D : Disagree
- SD : Strongly disagree
- Glow : Very important issue

I hope my answers were not ideologically biaised, tell me what you think about it.

The result we get with these answers is :
- Economic : +1.42
- Social : +2.96

Your score pegs you as economically centre-capitalist and socially centre-authoritarian.

Centre-capitalists often support free trade and low taxes, but take pragmatic stances on economic issues, supporting what they see as the best balance between encouraging business and maintaining free trade.

Social centre-authoritarians generally have moderate social views, with a slight lean toward government intervention. They may have moderate cultural and religious views, but on the whole believe that the government should assure that society should stay moral.


Do you think these results correspond to the American society. Discuss and do you own American PM if you disagree.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Intresting. That seems about right.

Thanks. I'm not surprised to see a quite conservative average PM.

Would be interesting to see it for other countries.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah. It's kinda weird. Outside of abortion, people are pretty nationalistic on social issues. I hope that's changing. It appears that the devide on abortion is here to stay and will not budge. On the other hand, it appears that other issues are beginning finally move. The kids, though no different than their parents or grand-parents on abortion (tending to informally poll more pro-life, but less likely to vote in favor of abortion restrictions- see S.D. Ref. 9 2008.) are beginning to come around on marijuana and gays. Prostitution will probably have to wait another 20 years before that issue sees any life...and I hope that hard drugs stay out of the fray as much as possible.  So, there you have it.

Agreed.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Just for fun, I do the same test for France, and we'll see what happens.

Quest #	Av Ans
1	SA
2	A
3	D
4	SA
5	A
6	N
7	D
8	D
9	SD
10	A
11	SA
12	A
13	D
14	A
15	SD
16	SD
17	SD
18	D
19	SA
20	D
21	SD
22	A
23	SD
24	D
25	D
26	D
27	SA

Legend :
- SA : Strongly agree
- A : Agree
- D : Disagree
- SD : Strongly disagree
- Glow : Very important issue


The result we get with these answers is :
- Economic : -4.39
- Social : -1.74

Your score pegs you as economically moderately leftist and socially centre-libertarian.

Moderate economic leftists generally support regulation of free trade and business to assure that workers are fairly treated and prices remain stable.

Social centre-libertarians generally have moderate social views, with a slight lean toward avoiding government intervention. However, they support government intervention in matters that they see as threats to society.



Also, I think this PM is based on American politics and is difficultly appliable to other countries. But still, we are a leftist country !

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good remarks. You are probably right on poor countries and on Affirmative Action, since it's considered an anti-equality measure.

Canadian estimate:

 Economic score: -2.71
Social score: -4.00

Your score pegs you as economically centre-leftist and socially moderately libertarian.

Economic centre-leftists typically support above average controls on free trade, raising or maintaining the current tax levels, but still support free trade.

Moderate social libertarians generally favour a hands-off approach to social legislation. They may believe that the government has no right to enforce morals, but may support certain controls on individual rights to avoid crime, drug use, or similar social ills.

Interesting. Also, Canada is more socially progressive than France but less so economically...

[Antonio the Sixth]

For Israel I estimate, with no chance of this being accurate, a PM Score average of :


Social : +3.00ish
Economic : -0.00ish

Quite moderate on economics... I guess that during Mapai domination's period, it was far mor leftist.