12 Axes Political Test

1. Key industries such as energy and railways should be publicly owned.
2. Prices set by free competition usually allocate resources better than government decisions.
3. Large companies should be required to give workers seats on their boards.
4. Every citizen should be guaranteed basic healthcare, paid for through taxes.
5. People who are able to work should not receive unemployment benefits for long periods.
6. Higher incomes should be taxed at higher rates to fund public services.
7. A country should put tariffs on imports to protect its own factories.
8. Consumers benefit when goods can cross borders with few restrictions.
9. Strategic products like chips and medicine should be made at home, even if it costs more.
10. Most decisions are best made by local communities rather than the national government.
11. The same rules should apply across the whole country, even if some regions disagree.
12. Cities and regions should be able to set their own tax rates.
13. Police should be allowed to use facial recognition cameras in public places.
14. It is better to let some guilty people go free than to punish one innocent person.
15. Governments should be able to read private messages when investigating serious crime.
16. People should be free to say offensive things as long as they do not call for violence.
17. Social media platforms should remove false information about health and elections.
18. Hate speech should be a criminal offense.
19. Long-standing customs usually exist for good reasons and should change slowly.
20. Same-sex couples should have the same marriage rights as other couples.
21. Schools should teach children the moral values of their community's tradition.
22. Religion should play no role in making laws.
23. A society is healthier when religious faith is part of public life.
24. Public officials should feel free to say how their faith guides their decisions.
25. International bodies should have more power to settle disputes between countries.
26. A government's first duty is to its own citizens, even when that costs people abroad.
27. Rich countries should spend more on aid to poorer countries.
28. Overall immigration levels should be reduced.
29. Immigrants bring more benefits than costs to the countries they move to.
30. People who enter a country illegally should be deported.
31. Fighting climate change is worth accepting slower economic growth.
32. Environmental rules often go too far and cost people their jobs.
33. New fossil-fuel cars should be phased out within the next 15 years.
34. Complex policy questions should be left to experts rather than public votes.
35. Major national decisions should be put to a referendum more often.
36. Ordinary voters often do not know enough to judge policy well.

It is a free 36-question quiz that places your views on 12 separate political dimensions, such as economy, trade, speech, borders and environment, instead of one left–right line.

About 5 minutes. Each question is one statement you rate from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree.

No. Scoring happens in your browser and nothing is uploaded. If you share your result, the link only contains your 12 axis scores.

Yes. The test and the result chart are free. An optional Full Report with longer explanations for each axis costs $2.99 once.