NZ Political Compass
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:50 pm by David FarrarAct on Campus have been trying to place NZ political parties and their youth sections on the Political Compass.
They want to crowd source it and have as many people as possible answer the survey on behalf of a political party – the idea being that you don’t answer with your personal views, but with how you perceive that party would answer. Then post the party name and their two scores in the comments.
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December 22nd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Excellent idea. I’ll give it a go too.
Despite some limitations I think the Political Compass is a very useful tool for understanding New Zealand politics.
I’ve looked at some similar issues in the extensive blog post below. I surveyed NZ political scientists on the ideological positions of the NZ parties. See here:
http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2009/11/the-changing-nature-of-ideological-conflict-in-new-zealand-electoral-politics-19962008-the-rush-to-t.html
I’ve also tried to compile where various NZ bloggers sit on the spectrums, using their own voluntary Political Compass test results. See here:
Vote:http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2009/06/a-far-left-social-libertarian.html
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Bryce, you got it wrong. DPF is to the left-side of the spectrum.
Vote:He used to be centre-right, but that was before the general election.
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Yes, please go and take the test answering the questions how you think THAT GROUP would answer them rather than yourself.
Then post what group or groups you answered for and the scores you got and i’ll collate them all together.
Feel free to answer for yourself too, but let us know that its a personal score so we don’t include it in the calculations.
-Peter McCaffrey
Vote:-ACT on Campus President
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
ACT on Campus are FAR below ACT on the compass. Go ACT on Campus!
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Economic Left/Right: 4.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
It’s amusing that, apart from the Greens, parties favour authoritarianism?
Even ACT! 
(Whoops, mine was a personals score – why don’t I reall ALL the instructions)
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
It says a lot about New Zealanders’ knowledge of politics and the political spectrum when the party of the she-beast, best described as Hugo Chavez in a skirt, is described as being on the right of the spectrum, and evenly balanced between libertarian and authoritarian.
And is it just me, or does the analysis of the US presidential candidates look a shit-load like a map of NZ?
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
I commented on Peter’s post that I didn’t understand how National can be more authoritarian than the Greens given the Greens what to ban everything.
http://liberation.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451d75d69e20120a6df8286970b-pi
^ this graph uses different terminology and makes more sense. If authoritarianism = social conservatism then Peter’s political compass graph makes more sense. But in my mind, social conservatism and authoritarianism aren’t the same. I perceive authoritarianism as high taxes, lots of rules & a dominating central figure (i.e. H E Clark).
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 5:47 pm
@NX: Taxes will likely come under the economic left/right scale rather than authoritarian/libertarian, as will many other measures (lots of the rules, for example) covered in the questionaire.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
See my reply comment on our site NX.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 6:55 pm
A large number of results from Young Act members and their ilk, responding to the survey in the way they believe all the other parties (which they hate) would respond??
Hey, maybe I’ll take part too. Act stands for compulsory sterilisation of Maoris, religious instruction in schools, capital punishment, serfdom, and zero tax for income earners over $150,000 right?
What a valuable dataset this exercise will generate. Not.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 7:02 pm
These things are frigging useless and I’ll tell you why. The questions are all loaded to hell with incorrect Progressive premises, and all that you can really get from it is how deeply that ideology is embedded in NZ’s culture. And unrecognised as such by people from ACT to Neathanderton’s Progressives, showing how well Fabianism, Gramascism and the frog in the warming pot principle all work so damn well.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
RRM, we’ve deliberately asked lots of people form all parties to answer it to try and avoid that. Maybe if you didn’t have such a closed mind you’d realise that.
Have you tried taking the tests? Do you disagree with what we go? If so, great, let us know – that’s the whole point.
Redbaiter, read the political compass’ faq – the questions are designed to be loaded one way or the other, that’s how you tell what someone thinks. If the questions were all balanced in the middle, you wouldn’t get as good a result.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
^ All the questions? Sounds to me you have a progressive mindset!
They aren’t loaded; it’s just how you think. Take this question “The rich are too highly taxed.”
How you answer the question hinges on your perception of ‘rich’. Rich could mean anything – a person on the minimum wage in NZ is rich compared to someone in a shantytown in Africa. So on that bases I agree. But I suspect most lefties don’t think like this. Also, rich doesn’t necessarily apply to wealth. You can be rich in good looks (like me
), or rich in good health.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 11:39 pm
To even start talking about the rich you have to buy into the Progressive class war scenario. I don’t. I can’t answer it honestly because I just don’t agree with the premise.
Vote:December 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 pm
showing how well Fabianism, Gramascism and the frog in the warming pot principle all work so damn well.
Crikey RB haven’t you ever clicked to the fact that the fact most of us don’t keep referring to it all the time is not because we don’t see it.
Vote:December 23rd, 2010 at 10:39 am
Red, did you catch the clip of Nina Totenburg apologising for using the word Christmas?
Vote: