Political Survey

In this survey, you are asked to give your opinion of a set of statements characterising political views. Please rate each statement on the scale given, which runs from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree".


For statistical purposes, please tell us where you live:

The following are a set of propositions. Tell us whether you agree with them, as they would apply to the country where you live.

New roads and railways should be built by the government, not private companies.

There's no need to subsidise farmers if we can buy food more cheaply from abroad, even if that meant they went out of business.

A person's social status should depend on who their parents are.

It's more important that we elect parties in exact proportion to their support than that we each have individual local representatives.

Fundamentally, the people of this country have the same character as those of our neighbours.

Our society needs more lawyers.

The government should raise revenue by taxing consumption rather than income.

Dealing with nuisance crimes like petty vandalism makes serious crime less likely.

Members of society needn't be familiar with the history and traditions of our culture.

Everyone should have access to the Internet.

Society is more important than family.

No crime, however serious, should be punished by death.

Breaking the law is not always immoral.

Sometimes interest rates should be raised to reduce inflation, even if doing so would cause a large number of job losses.

Officials like public prosecutors should be directly elected rather than chosen by the government.


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