Political models.

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Take a look at this section of a wikipedia article on the political spectrum.

 

I suppose as politics is so complex the Friesian political spectrum is the closest thing to acurate although far from it.

 

Do you think that it's possible to create a model of various political posisitions? If so what would it look like?

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Well, for one, these aren't models. They don't predict or explain anything. Its just a system for assigning labels, a proposed measurement standard, whatever. Only the Eyseneck chart is an actual model, it proposes to correlate authoritarian with political preference measured independently, hence RWA syndrome. Even so, Eyseneck is accused of observer bias and successor research, most recently Jost et. al. in "Political conservatism as socially motivated cognition," has also come under fire [1].

 

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