Where are you on the Nolan Chart?

The Nolan chart is a visual representation of the political spectrum that measures not only liberal vs conservative tendencies but also libertarian and statist tendencies.
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The original Nolan chart
The Nolan chart was originally created by libertarian political scientist David Nolan, who was also the lead founder of the Libertarian Party. He correctly realized that limiting analysis of political opinions to merely their liberality or conservativeness does not adequately account for all political viewpoints. By reorienting personal freedom issues along the "Y" axis and economic issues along the "X" axis, he created a two dimensional chart that is much more accurate and meaningful when analyzing a particular person's political viewpoint. This makes the Nolan chart's two-dimensional approach a much more accurate representation of the political spectrum than the typical one-dimensional left-to-right line most political analysts refer to.

The Advocates for Self Government chart
The chart was modified by Marshall Fritz, who founded the Advocates for Self-Government and who also created and popularized the World's Smallest Political Quiz based on the chart in the early 1980s. His modification was to take the original Nolan chart (which was displayed as a square) and turn it 45º counter-clockwise to make the chart into a diamond shape and add a 10 question "quiz." Our own version of the chart uses the same diamond orientation. Fritz's World's Smallest Political Quiz is used to this day by the Advocates, and their quiz has been taken by millions of people.
Source: http://www.nolanchart.com/faq/faq8.php


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