Unlike traditional 1D left-right spectrums or 2D political compasses, this model captures ideology along three independent axes.
How should resources, production, and wealth be organized? From collective ownership and redistribution on the left, to private property and free markets on the right.
How much authority should the state exercise over individuals? From maximum personal freedom and minimal governance, to strong central control and enforced social order.
How should societies relate to national identity and culture? From open borders, globalism, and cultural pluralism, to national sovereignty, heritage, and cultural preservation.
The traditional Political Compass maps ideologies onto two axes — economic and social. While intuitive, academia has long criticized this as insufficient: it collapses distinct phenomena (nationalism, cultural values, identity) into a single axis.
Research published in Nature Human Behaviour (2025), Applied Network Science (2023), and at NAACL (2022) independently corroborates the need for multidimensional models. Our model adds a dedicated Identity axis to capture the nationalism-cosmopolitanism dimension that defines much of 21st-century politics.
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