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Learn how this is actually measured

Short modules built from the same codebook, evidence and self-tests as the atlas itself. Each one ends with a cell you code yourself, with the score withheld until you commit.

There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. The modules are on this site, free to read, free to use in teaching, and free to quote with attribution.

9 of 9modules available now
62 minthe full sequence
Freeincluding for classroom use

The modules

01

What a label hides

Why two people can both be right about whether a party is far right.

  • The anatomy of an argument that cannot resolve
  • Six independent questions inside one phrase
  • The one diagnostic question that ends it
6 minAvailable
02

Ownership is not the tax rate

The first axis, and the test that separates a large state from a socialist one.

  • What the economic axis actually measures
  • Why Sweden is not socialist and Vietnam is not communist
  • Coding a cell yourself, with the score withheld
7 minAvailable
03

Prescribed, or permitted

Social and cultural order — and why this axis is not religiosity.

  • Kemalism and Khomeinism, eleven points apart
  • The axis that moves fastest, and what that does to old claims
  • Coding exercise: two cases
6 minAvailable
04

Can it be stopped?

The organisation of power, and the case that makes one line indefensible.

  • Dispersal versus benevolence
  • Chile 1973: free markets, no free politics
  • Delegation is not concentration
8 minAvailable
05

At what level?

Scale of decision — the axis that carries whole arguments invisibly.

  • The same policy at two scales is two policies
  • Which axes a country contests, and which it has settled
5 minAvailable
06

Who belongs

The rule of membership, and the recoding that moved thirty scores.

  • Four tiers of closure
  • Why immigration policy was the wrong definition
6 minAvailable
07

How change comes

Method and tempo — one point apart, and one of them killed the other.

  • Reform, rupture and restoration
  • Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
  • Completed transitions
6 minAvailable
08

The five failure modes

How a one-dimensional model produces false statements, in five recognisable ways.

  • Substitution, collapse, drift, the name trap, asymmetry
  • Worked examples from both directions
  • The one that cannot be seen from inside
10 minAvailable
09

Four checks before you repeat a claim

A ten-minute procedure that runs on paper, with no dataset at all.

  • Name the axis
  • Test the name against the record
  • Read the composition, then check the frame
8 minAvailable

Teaching with this? The modules are free to use in a classroom without asking. A workbook with printable coding exercises, a marking rubric and the six axis handouts is in preparation — the update list is where it will be announced first.

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