Maybe you've seen Political Compass Test.  This is a way in which Political Scientists are able to map a person's political belief structure that more accurately represents reality rather than using the traditional "Left-Right" paradigm. It is a reaction to the increasingly irrelevent and often misused notion that people fit neatly onto a linear model based on the French Revolution's description of the political spectrum.  As a student who holds a minor in Political Science, this is the model that was taught to me at the University of Michigan.

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