Understand the 12 axes
Leaning Autocracy: Representation
27.6–42.5% Democracy · 57.5–72.4% Autocracy
What this band means
Leaning Autocracy covers 27.6–42.5% Democracy. Your answers favor Autocracy, with a moderate preference in this part of the questionnaire. Democracy emphasizes participation, competitive elections, opposition, deliberation and institutional restraints. Autocracy emphasizes concentrated leadership, inherited authority, rule by experts or continued government without competitive popular authorization. A preference for effective administration is not automatically a preference for autocracy. The questionnaire asks which safeguards and forms of participation should survive disagreements or difficult circumstances. This band describes the direction and distance of your score from the center, rather than the percentage of people who agree with you. Two people in the same band can still disagree on particular policies. Their remaining eleven axes may also differ substantially. Use the sample statements to identify the trade-offs that produced this part of your result. The catalog examples below offer points of comparison within the model; they are not a survey of quiz participants.
Across the reference catalog
These 99 profiles are reference models, not responses from quiz participants. The distributions describe this catalog’s composition.
Among 33 ideologies, the median Representation score is 36.2% Democracy. The lowest value is 28.1% (Federalist Monarchism), while the highest is 42.5% (Communism). These values describe the reference set on this particular axis.
Among 19 countries and regions, the median Representation score is 30.5% Democracy. The lowest value is 28% (Monaco), while the highest is 42.5% (Confederate States of America). These values describe the reference set on this particular axis.
Among 47 figures, the median Representation score is 37.5% Democracy. The lowest value is 28.1% (Victor Gao), while the highest is 42.5% (James Lovelock). These values describe the reference set on this particular axis.
Examples in this band
How the other axes combine
These are medians for reference profiles in this band. They do not predict the other views of a person with this result.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Structure has a median of 25% Federal and 75% Unitary.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Power has a median of 70% Security and 30% Liberty.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Immigration has a median of 65% Assimilation and 35% Multiculturalism.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Diplomacy has a median of 57.6% Militarist and 42.4% Pacifist.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Intervention has a median of 41.2% Non-interventionist and 58.8% Nationalist.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Economy has a median of 48.8% Public and 51.2% Private.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Control has a median of 64% Planning and 36% Free market.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Trade has a median of 67.5% Protectionism and 32.5% Globalism.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Religion has a median of 33.8% Irreligious and 66.2% Religious.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Morality has a median of 30% Progressive and 70% Traditionalist.
Among the 99 profiles in Leaning Autocracy, Technology has a median of 60.6% Technology and 39.4% Biology.
Consider the questions
01Free elections must be kept even when they elect bad governments.
02The political opposition should have the right to criticize any government in public.
03In serious crises, a strong leader should be able to govern without depending on the legislature.
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