Where do you stand politically? Test it out!
A person's political views are based on their values and moral stance. These usually change over the course of their life as increasing experience and various events and developments shape their life. Everyone has an idea of their political stance and can usually classify themselves. You can test here whether this self-assessment matches the measured picture.
The political compass
Our political orientation test provides you with an analysis of your position on the political spectrum. Our political compass shows you whether you lean more to the left or to the right politically. You can compare this with your own self-assessment and the positions of the various political parties.
We also determine the distribution of political orientations across all our users and measure changes in political orientation over several years. To limit multiple entries by individual persons, we ask you for an email address. You will then receive a link at this address, which you must click on to confirm. When taking the test for the first time, please answer the questions as accurately as possible to reflect your personal views. You can repeat the test with your email address, but it will no longer be counted in the overall statistics. After three months, your email address will be deleted and the next test will then be included in the overall statistics again.
Is it still possible to divide the political views of the population into left and right, and can a political spectrum be reliably determined?
In principle, the answer to this question is yes.
When classifying parties as politically left or right, the distinction is usually understood as a demand for the expansion of state social benefits for the left and the maintenance of the current status quo or the reduction of state social benefits for the right. This classification still exists in the political attitudes of the population and most parties. When additional criteria are taken into account, it is sometimes no longer possible to make clear classifications. This can be particularly difficult in the case of single-issue parties.
The political spectrum as a whole must be determined over a long period of time in such a way that, on average, half of the population is to the left and half to the right of the centre. This allows trends in the development of the population, but above all in the perception of the parties, to be observed clearly. In the development of the population in Germany, for example, it can be seen that over the decades, people's self-assessment has actually shifted slightly to the left on average, but that the distribution between the centre and the fringes has changed only slightly.
In addition to the left-right dimension, the libertarian/authoritarian dimension is usually also represented. However, this can also be replaced by a dimension relating to environmental awareness, material and immaterial value orientation or others.
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