9axes Political Test

Statement 01 of 45About 8 min left

State laws should have precedence over national laws

Answers stay on this device. Keys 1 to 5 pick an answer while the form has focus.

9 axes · 45 original questions

What you get: a sample result

This is a sample of the result the 9axes test gives, with example scores. Finish the test and the result shows your own nine axes, your closest ideology, and the figure, country and historical state nearest to you.

Sample result

9axesClosest match

Social Liberalism

Portrait of Willy Brandt — 89%Closest figureWilly Brandt

FederalUnitary60.0%40.0%

DemocraticAuthoritarian70.0%30.0%

GlobalistIsolationist65.0%35.0%

MilitaristPacifist40.0%60.0%

SecurityFreedom35.0%65.0%

EqualityMarkets70.0%30.0%

SecularReligious75.0%25.0%

ProgressiveTraditional80.0%20.0%

AssimilationistMulticulturalist45.0%55.0%

Closest countrySpain89%

Historically closestSecond Spanish Republic 1931–193990%

80.0% towards Progressive — the strongest axis

Farthest from this result

Afghanistan46%

Francisco Franco Farthest figure46%

Portraits: Willy Brandt: Engelbert Reineke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de; Francisco Franco: Unknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sample: example scores, not a real person.

How the nine axes are scored

Each axis is measured by five statements, answered on a five-step scale: Strongly Agree counts 2, Agree 1, Neutral/Unsure 0, Disagree −1 and Strongly Disagree −2, reversed for a statement that argues for the other end. The five answers are added, multiplied by 5 and added to 50, as in the short version of the original 9axes quiz.

Federal–Unitary, Democratic–Authoritarian, Globalist–Isolationist, Militarist–Pacifist, Security–Freedom, Equality–Markets, Secular–Religious, Progressive–Traditional and Assimilationist–Multiculturalist are the nine axes. The opposite ends of each axis add to 100%.

The closest match is the nearest of the 52 ideologies listed by 9axes, found with its own distance rule on four of the nine axes: Equality–Markets, Democratic–Authoritarian, Globalist–Isolationist and Progressive–Traditional. The closest figure, country and historical state are added by this site: your nine scores are compared with the nine matching axes of the 12 Axes registers.

Source and licence

This test uses the original MIT-licensed 9axes question bank and the scoring rule of its short version. The result design is ours. 12axestest.com is independent and not made by or affiliated with 9axes.