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Edmund Burke

Historical and international

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Position estimated from: Reflections on the Revolution in France: tradition, gradual reform, established church.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
77toward market
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
91strongly toward traditional
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
38near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
70toward nationalist
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
55near the center
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
81toward private ownership
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
42near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
70toward nationalist
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
98strongly toward traditionalist
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
35toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
86strongly toward hierarchical
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
30toward free market
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
55near the center
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
76toward religious authority

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
The means of production should ultimately be owned collectively.Strongly disagreesestimated
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Strongly disagreesestimated
The state should not give any religion an official or favored status, even if other faiths can still worship freely.Strongly disagreesfrom their record
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
People should be free to criticize the government without fear of legal punishment.Strongly agreesestimated
Rapid social change generally creates more problems than it solves.Strongly agreesfrom their record
National borders should become less important over time.Strongly disagreesestimated
Reducing the gap between rich and poor should be a major government goal.Strongly disagreesestimated
Non-intervention should be the default even when allies request military assistance.Strongly disagreesestimated
Laws should be based on secular reasoning rather than religious teaching.Strongly disagreesestimated

Closest ideologies

Social Conservatism90% similar positionTraditional Conservatism89% similar positionNational Conservatism85% similar positionNeoconservatism84% similar positionPaternalistic Conservatism83% similar position

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.