Pournelle Chart
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The Pournelle Chart, developed by Jerry Pournelle (1963 Political Science Ph.D. dissertation), is a 2-dimensional coordinate system used to distinguish political ideologies. It is similar to the Nolan Chart in that it is a two dimensional chart, but the X-axis (labeled Statism) refers to your feelings toward state and centralised government (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil" - the diagonal of the Nolan Chart), and the Y axis (labeled Rationalism) referring to your belief that all problems in society have rational solutions. (top being complete confidence in planning, bottom being its total lack).
"Leftist" ideologies, such as (American) liberalism, socialism and communism, tend to be placed in the upper right-hand quadrant of high state control and high rationalism. Conservatism, fascism and Nazism are to be placed in the lower right hand quadrant of high state control and low rationalism. Classical anarchists are in the lower left hand corner of low state control and low rationalism. Libertarians and Objectivists are placed in the upper lefthand corner of low state control and high rationalism.
The Pournelle Chart was originally published in Dr. Pournelle's Ph.D. dissertation in 1962.
See also
External links
- The Pournelle Political Axes (http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm)
- Dating the Pournelle Axes (http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/001451.html)es:Gráfico de Pournelle