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Title: Are You a Conservative or a Liberal?: A Fun and Easy Test to Tell Where You Stand on the Political Spectrum by Victor Kamber, Bradley S. O'Leary, Stephen Weeks ISBN: 1-887161-09-0 Publisher: Boru Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A nice book to read to get the facts straight!
Comment: I bought this book because I got into an argument with a friend of mine who prides himself on being a republican, whereas I have always voted democrat. (Not this time though. I voted Libertarian.) We took the tests, and yes his political spectrum is more to the right of me, but we both learned a few things about where we stood. There are three tests in the book. In the first test, somehow I came out MODERATELY CONSERVATIVE. (My friend was CONSERVATIVE, one more click to the right of me) The second test marked me MODERATELY LIBERAL, while my friend didn't take that test. The last one was LIBERAL for me while my friend was MODERATE TO CONSERVATIVE. More to the point, you learn a lot and you take a lot of disbelief in what both authors have to say. You'll likely like one point of view and not the other for all areas in this book, but that's life and that's America. BTW After reading this and thinking about it, I've declared myself socially very liberal while more fiscally moderate.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book
Comment: I read this book, and I feel it can help the novice to the political arena in knowing what is the conservative or the liberal side of issues.The book allows you to know the other side's arguments about an issue.By doing so, it can make you have a better understanding of the issues. I feel the linear political spectrum is still good to measure anyone's point of view politically including even where libertarians are. I feel the tests are good ones, but I feel a better way of finding out where you stand is to divide the issues more into broad categories such as economic, social, domestic reform, military and foreign liberalism. I was rated as being moderate, but I was rated as a moderate because i am really an economic liberal, a social moderate,a liberal on domestic reform.a military conservative and a foreign moderate. If 0 is liberal,1 is moderate and 2 is conservative, I would score out of a possible 10(most conservative) a 4,just left of center. A libertarian could score himself the same way.The book is on the right track, no libertarian should mind this book. It has all views covered.By the way I scored a 20-middle of the road, but i now know what issues i am liberal on and what i am conservative on. It's a nice book, both the novice or the politically experienced can learned something from this book.A good 4 star rating.
Rating: 3
Summary: Geared for the Political Novice
Comment: Most individuals who understand both the political landscape and issues of the day, will attain little new knowledge from this book. Most likely one so astute in the realm of politics already knows his own political persuasion. The issues discussed in the book seem to be unenlightening; nothing more than the overused rhetoric of every issue from abortion to welfare. Neither conservatives nor liberals will feel their views have been properly pronounced or defended. The test re-affirms only the obvious (unless you were confused about your views). The book's tests seem to be rather inconsistent. On some tests one may be slighty conservative and on another one may prove to be slightly liberal or even more firmly conservative. They also make the mistake of using the linear political spectrum. This does not account for libertarians, thus (with the issues predominantly being social ones) a libertarian may be ranked as a liberal! The tests also seem to confuse political and social views, asking questions about telivision shows and books. One can be more socially moderate and still hold a political extreme or vice-versa. Furthermore, some of the tests actually require advanced poltical or government knowledge that a political novice (whom the book is geared for) would have a hard time answering. The book does have a few positives. Unlike most political spectrum assesments, it does give more weight to certain issues (ie-your stance on school vouchers has less of a determining factor than your view on the size of government). It also does give some introductory information to those not well briefed on an issue. In conclusion, the book may be worth it to find the general political philosophy of yourself or friends and family, however, it is not the most accurate barometer in existence nor does it explain all issues in enough depth. An interesting concept but not incredibly well done.
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Title: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff ISBN: 0226467716 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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