{"id":1208,"date":"2009-01-15T07:05:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:44:07","slug":"politicalcompassorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1208","title":{"rendered":"Politicalcompass.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/politicalcompass.jpg\" alt=\"Political Compass image\" class=\"alignright\" \/><br \/>\nWhere do you fall on the political scale from extreme libertarian to extreme authoritarian, factoring in both economic and social leanings? if you aren&#8217;t sure, there is a web-based test for you at <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcompass.org\/index\">politicalcompass.org<\/a>. Respond agree, strongly agree, disagree or strongly disagree to a series of social and political propositions, and then see where you fall on the Political Compass.<\/p>\n<p>You can also see where the Senators from the 50 states fall on the compass, and where political parties in other countries fall.<\/p>\n<p>The site provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcompass.org\/reading\">reading list<\/a> for those of us who are interested in learning more about influential thinkers from the four quadrants of the compass (Libertarian Left, Libertarian Right, Authoritarian Left, Authoritarian Right). Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> to see which titles are available here.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;re really set on fire, your University Library has yet more materials to learn about libertarianism, authoritarianism, or political parties in other countries. Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> to find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vrgXHgAACAAJ\"><em>Radicals for capitalism: a freewheeling history of the modern American libertarian movement<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SJig-MdTulIC\"><em>Parties, politics, and democracy in the new Southern Europe<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NReDAAAAMAAJ&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Authoritarian legacies and democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">Ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance in finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you fall on the political scale from extreme libertarian to extreme authoritarian, factoring in both economic and social leanings? if you aren&#8217;t sure, there is a web-based test for you at politicalcompass.org. Respond agree, strongly agree, disagree or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1619,1624,1621,1620,1618,1622,1623,23,658],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-authoritarianism","tag-economic-politics","tag-leftist","tag-libertarianism","tag-politicalcompass","tag-rightist","tag-social-politics","tag-surveys","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}