Anybody want to contribute to a Knowledge of Socialism scale?

[Jackpine Radical]

What I'm looking for is multiple-choice questions that assess basic knowledge of socialist theory. Such an instrument could be very useful for some simple little research projects I'm thinking about.

[socialist_n_TN]

1. Good idea to make the questions multiple choice...

For folks that are politically uninformed, multiple choice answers act as a clarification of the thinking process.

Let me think on this and get back.

[BanTheGOP]

2. There is such a scale

There is such a scale that is more universal, but should fit your needs. I have some problems with it myself, but then again I have problems with ANY system that relegates capitalism and republicanism to any sense of measurability in the first place.

The site is located here: http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

[Jackpine Radical]

4. That is an important and useful scale, and I'm grateful to you for having reminded me of it. However

it doesn't assess knowledge, but rather, attitudes. There is a role for this instrument--or something similar--in the project I'm thinking of, but I also need a measure of knowledge, because I want to see the relationship between positive or negative feelings about socialism and actual knowledge of what it is.

One hypothesis that might be advanced and tested with the Compass & the Knowledge of Socialism (KoS) scale is that many of those who react negatively to the term "socialism" actually have communitarian attitudes and values that they don't recognize as "socialist."

[Starry Messenger]

3. The study questions on this page are what I think of:

http://tx.cpusa.org/school/classics/manif.htm

Is that what you kind of what you had in mind? Some of them have words in them that might be changed to make them less confusing and more useful for a broader audience.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Yes, that's good, that's great!

And of course items can be rewritten as needed.