Understand the 12 axes
Strong Autocracy: Representation
12.6–27.5% Democracy · 72.5–87.4% Autocracy
What this band means
Strong Autocracy covers 12.6–27.5% Democracy. Your answers favor Autocracy, with a strong 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 156 profiles are reference models, not responses from quiz participants. The distributions describe this catalog’s composition.
Among 50 ideologies, the median Representation score is 20.6% Democracy. The lowest value is 12.6% (Techno-Monarchism), while the highest is 27.5% (Vietnamese Socialism). These values describe the reference set on this particular axis.
Among 39 countries and regions, the median Representation score is 19.8% Democracy. The lowest value is 12.6% (Theocratic Tibet), while the highest is 27.5% (Fujimori's Peru). These values describe the reference set on this particular axis.
Among 67 figures, the median Representation score is 20% Democracy. The lowest value is 12.6% (Charles X Gustav), while the highest is 27.5% (Howard Scott). 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 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Structure has a median of 16.3% Federal and 83.7% Unitary.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Power has a median of 78.8% Security and 21.2% Liberty.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Immigration has a median of 69.6% Assimilation and 30.4% Multiculturalism.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Diplomacy has a median of 72.5% Militarist and 27.5% Pacifist.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Intervention has a median of 30% Non-interventionist and 70% Nationalist.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Economy has a median of 53.05% Public and 47% Private.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Control has a median of 68.8% Planning and 31.2% Free market.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Trade has a median of 70.5% Protectionism and 29.5% Globalism.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Religion has a median of 33.75% Irreligious and 66.3% Religious.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Morality has a median of 25% Progressive and 75% Traditionalist.
Among the 156 profiles in Strong Autocracy, Technology has a median of 62.5% Technology and 37.5% 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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