Political spectrum

A political spectrum is a way of comparing or visualizing different political positions, by placing them upon one or more geometric axes.

Suggested reading

Maximum Liberty by Anonymous. 2003.

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(ISBN 0974443905)

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Provides an overview of the different models of the political spectrum. The author proposes a new, universal model for the political spectrum and explains why the various existing models are inadequate. The model separates the scope of government from the form of government, whereas the political spectrum only describes potential levels of government control over society, not forms of rulership and administrative organization.

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Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum by William S. Maddox and Stuart A. Lilie; foreword by David Boaz. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1984.

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(ISBN 0932790437)

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This book emphasised that the world needs a better model of the political spectrum. Regrettably, the authors are heavily biased in favor of the American libertarian concept of a two-axis model. Although the book provides a good introduction to the libertarian model, the authors offer no real critique of the model and fail to adequately address competing models.

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