Answer 16 questions (about 5 minutes) to see where you stand across four axes: Economic, Social & Cultural, Government Authority, and Diplomatic. The design draws on concepts from political science and social psychology research — the Political Compass's economic/social axes, the GAL-TAN cultural dimension (Hooghe et al., 2002), Altemeyer's Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale, and the globalist–nationalist foreign-policy dimension.
When you finish, each of the four axes gives you a score between −100 and +100. Plot the economic axis horizontally and the government authority axis vertically and you get the four quadrants of the familiar political compass. The quadrants are names for different combinations, not a ranking.
The remaining two axes — social and cultural (progressive ↔ traditional) and diplomatic (globalist ↔ nationalist) — appear as separate bars rather than on the grid. Economic and cultural positions diverge often enough that keeping them apart describes people more accurately than folding them together.
A score near zero means no clear leaning on that axis. You may judge case by case, may not have settled on a position yet, or may find merit on both sides. That is a result in its own right, not a sign that something went wrong.
The questions and the scoring are fixed, so the same answers produce the same result. A noticeably different outcome means your answers changed. If you chose "neutral" often, your scores cluster near zero and small changes can flip the quadrant.
No. The test never asks for your name, email, or age, and both your answers and the scoring stay inside your browser. Close the page and the answers go with it.
Start with 16 questions for a rough direction, then move to the 40-question version from the results screen. Each axis goes from four questions to ten, so any single question sways the score less. The scoring logic is identical in both.
Korean is at politicalorientationtest.com and Japanese at politicalorientationtest.com/ja/. Each version was written separately in its own language rather than machine-translated.
Words like left, right, progressive and traditional mean different things to different people. Each of the four axes this test uses, and each of the eight positions, has its own page. Every position is described the way its own supporters would describe it, and criticisms are given equal weight across all of them.
Axes · The Economic axis · The Social & Cultural axis · The Government Authority axis · The Diplomatic axis
Positions · Economic Left · Economic Right · Social Progressive · Social Traditionalist · Libertarian · Authoritarian · Globalist · Nationalist