Nolan diagram

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Development history. Apparently the diagram common today does not correspond to what Nolan designed, but was modified by Marshall Fritz . The source that I have on this is a personal reference from Fritz.

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The Nolan Chart ( English Nolan Chart ) is a model of the political spectrum . It classifies ideologies on two axes according to their attitude to state influence in the economic and private spheres. Libertarians use it for their public relations. It is generally considered to be libertarian.

The model was developed by David Nolan . He published it in the January 1971 issue of The Individualist , the Society for Individual Liberty magazine . At the end of the same year, Nolan helped found the American Libertarian Party . Steve Mariotti calls the Nolan diagram “ the defining document of the Libertarian party ” (German: “the document that shaped the Libertarian Party”).

description

The Nolan diagram classifies political ideologies according to the extent to which they reject state influences in the economic and private spheres. According to the libertarian definition, the lack of state influence is equated with freedom .

The diagram is usually drawn as an inverted square. The zero point is at the bottom. The axis diagonally high to the left describes the rejection of state influence on private life, the diagonally high axis to the right describes the rejection of state influence on the economy.

In each of the four corners there is an ideology:

• On the left is the political left , social liberalism ( American English : Liberalism ). He advocated strong state control of the economy, but little over private life.
• On the right is the political right , conservatism . He advocated little state control of the economy ( laissez-faire ), but strong control over private life.
• At the top is libertarianism, which rejects state control in both areas.
• Below is the authoritarianism that advocates them in both areas.

The center is occupied by the undefined political center .

Variant published by the Libertarian Liberal Institute

The Libertarian Liberal Institute has published a variant of the Nolan diagram, in which "social liberal [er]" is replaced by social democrat and "authoritarian [er]" by socialist / communist / fascist .

reception

Libertarians use the Nolan Chart for their public relations. The smallest political quiz in the world ( english The World's Smallest Political Quiz ) of the Advocates for Self-Government has a reference to a position on the Nolan Chart to 10 questions. Jacob H. Huebert writes: “ it shows some people that they are more libertarian than they realized ” (German : “ It shows some people that they are more libertarian than they thought”).

For Brian Patrick Mitchell , the model was a clear step forward. It shows that libertarianism is different from both the right and the left. In high schools it was used in community studies . However, it does not enjoy a great reputation outside of libertarian circles.

According to Mitchell, this is due to the following shortcomings of the model:

• The fundamental distinction between social and economic policy has no theoretical basis. One example is immigration policy. Immigration can promote multiculturalism (social policy) and provide cheap labor (economic policy).
• The thesis that the rights would generally support state influence over private life and the left reject it is not tenable. For example, the American right advocates a loose gun law , the left a sharp one.
• The libertarian definition of freedom is not universally accepted. Libertarians only consider negative freedom , the absence of coercion. In contrast, emphasis is placed on positive freedom , especially in the left spectrum . It also includes having the opportunity and opportunity to meet one's needs and wishes.

The model is also criticized from the libertarian side. Like Mitchell, Huebert considers Nolan's definition of left and right to be questionable. He considers both the attitude of the left to personal freedom and the attitude of the right to economic freedom to be inconsistent. He also lists:

• Personal and economic freedom are difficult to separate. The freedom to sell drugs and to prostitute oneself can also be described as economic freedom, and the freedom to work under conditions and for a wage of one's choice, also personal.
• Libertarians generally reject war. The topic is so important to many of them that it should be treated with emphasis. However, the Nolan chart doesn't cover it at all.

further reading

• David Nolan: Classifying and Analyzing Politico-Economic Systems . In: The Individualist . January 1971 (English, this is where the Nolan diagram was first published).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marshall Fritz: Hope for the Politically Homeless. Archived from the original ; Retrieved December 31, 2018 (first published in The Fresno Bee on September 4, 1988). 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Jacob H. Huebert: Libertarianism Today . ABC-CLIO , 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-37754-9 , pp. 22–24 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Brian Patrick Mitchell: Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right . Greenwood Publishing , 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99358-0 , pp. 6–8 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
4. ↑ David F Nolan. The Advocates for Self-Government, accessed October 16, 2018 .  
5. ^ ^{A b} Steve Mariotti: Economically Conservative Yet Socially Tolerant? Find Yourself on the Nolan Chart. In: The Huffington Post . December 6, 2017, accessed October 16, 2018 .  
6. ↑ Robert Nef , Dr. Bernhard Ruetz (editor): reflection . No. 47 . Liberal Institute , October 2002, p. 62 ( Zweckgemeinde.ch [PDF; accessed on July 12, 2019]).
7. ^ About the Quiz. The Advocates for Self-Government, accessed October 14, 2018 .