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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 April | 131 comments (131 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: What EU party suits you best? (4.00 / 4)
For the heck of it, I did it for Hungary and Germany. I didn't think in advance so I did both in the native language... so some explanations for the graphs below.

First, the positioning of parties and myself; right-left axis social-economic left-right (methinks that should be two separate dimensions... for a number of parties, extremes in those cancel out), top-down: for-against EU integration.

(MDF: small centre-right party with a recent extreme market-liberal makeover; SzDSz: small liberal party; Fidesz: right-populist main party; MSzP: Socialists; LMP: a new moderate Green formation; Jobbik: fascists)

(CSU, CDU: Bavarian/rest of Germany Christian Socialists/Democrats; FDP: [neo-]liberals; FW: Free Voters, localists; SPD: Social Democrats; Die Grünen: Greens; Die Linken: Left Party; DVU, Rep[ublikaner]: far-right)

Next, level of shared values with individual parties:

I suspect the reason this test claims I share more with the domestic far-right than the CDU, CSU and FDP is the fascists' support for the social state.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 04:35:50 AM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 0)
very elegant work, dodo, thanks!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 09:19:28 AM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 0)
If you mean the graphs, they are screen-grabs, not my work :-)

Would you take the test & post your own results for Italy in nanne's new FP story?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 09:32:34 AM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 0)
I ended up in the middle of the upper left quandrant, though there were no specific Finnish questions except to ask a 'votability rating' for each Finnish political party.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 09:35:39 AM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 0)
i did it, but cannot grab the image, it won't let me.

any tips? there's got to be an easier way than screen snapshotting it then posting it on flickr, please?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 09:51:01 PM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 1)
Screenshot, crop, save as gif, upload to [Photobucket in my case] was exactly what I did.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Apr 25th, 2009 at 07:32:28 AM EST
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Re: What EU party suits you best? (none / 0)
well, i went through it twice now, getting slightly different results.
i found the questions not nuanced enough, so i'm going to pass, if you don't mind, thanks for the invite, Dodo.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Apr 25th, 2009 at 08:30:54 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 April | 131 comments (131 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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