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The Pournelle chart has liberty on one axis, with those on the left seeking freedom from control or protections for social deviance and those on the right emphasizing state authority or protections for norm enforcement (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil").
The Nolan Chart in its traditional form. The Nolan Chart is a political spectrum diagram created by American libertarian activist David Nolan in 1969, charting political views along two axes, representing economic freedom and personal freedom.
English: Two-axis political spectrum chart, cultural focus on community/individual, and economic focus on community/individual. It is similar to the Nolan chart, except with less libertarian bias. Instead of the non-left-right axis being libertarian-authoritarian (as with the Nolan chart), it is individualism-communitarianism. Nolan was a ...
The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, with emphasis placed upon issues of social equality and social hierarchy. In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrist and moderate positions, which are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.
Bobbio argues that the political terms left and right are meaningful and consistent. He dismisses arguments that late 20th-century movements often are hard to place on the left–right political spectrum, arguing that this mainly is something left-wingers say when they try to regain power after having lost momentum.
I think the current list of ideologies, which is symmetrically ordered from far-left (revolutionary) to far-right (reactionary) is far more relevant and sensible. Other ideologies can be listed in other templates; the political spectrum is eurocentric (originating from the French revolution) and many ideologies come from other traditions.
While the traditional political "left-right" spectrum is a line, the Nolan Chart, created by David Nolan, is a plane, situating libertarianism in a wider gamut of political thought. Nolan pictured with his eponymous chart at the 1996 Libertarian National Convention
The most common example of a spatial model is a political spectrum or compass, such as the traditional left-right axis, [2] but issue spaces can be more complex. For example, a study of German voters found at least four dimensions were required to adequately represent all political parties. [2]