Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy, Brief Eighth Edition (Study Edition)

By Robert Lineberry, Martin Wattenberg, & George Edwards • Pearson Longman (2007)

QUOTE: "You can also find out where you fit in the ideological spectrum by taking the 'World's Smallest Political Quiz'..."

Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

By Brian Doherty • PublicAffairs Books (2007)

QUOTE: "...A two-dimensional grid popularized as 'the world's smallest political quiz' and often used as a device to capture people's attention at... booths at county fairs and the like. The quiz asks ten questions covering both personal and economic liberty and places the test taker, based on his answers, on a point on a two-dimensional grid..."

Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right

By Brian Patrick Mitchell • Praeger Publishers (2006)

QUOTE: "Then, in the mid-1980s, the Nolan Chart was fitted with a survey of its own, compliments of Marshall Fritz, founder of Advocates for Self- Government... Today we can all find our place on the Nolan Chart using the on-line version of 'The World's Smallest Political Quiz' at [the Advocate's] Web site... The Nolan Chart was a definite advance in thinking. It subjected the Right and the Left to a simple libertarian test and established the libertarian position as an independent alternative..."

Yahoo! The Ultimate 2002 Reference to the Web

By H.P. Newquist • I Books (2002)

QUOTE: "...A cool little test. Billed as the world's smallest political quiz, it takes about 15 seconds to fill out. Based on your answers, the site gives you a profile, complete with graph, of where you fit in the political belief spectrum. It's an interesting exercise."

America: The Politics of Diversity

By David G. Lawrence • Wadsworth (1999)

QUOTE: "Increasingly, political scientists and others have criticized the left/right view of American political ideology. It fails to account for the view of libertarians or explain the inconsistent, nuanced, or otherwise diverse views of many Americans. Consider the alternative pattern in [the World's Smallest Political Quiz]. According to this diamond-shaped scheme, a person's ideology is based on how the role of government is viewed in both personal and economic matters... To take a personal ideology quiz to see where you fit in, visit the Advocates' Web site."

Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America

By Micah L Sifry • Routledge Books / UK (2003)

QUOTE: "When [former Minnesota governor] Jesse Ventura was asked for a one-word description of his political philosophy, he often said libertarian, noting that he had scored 100 on the World's Smallest Political Quiz..."

Cybercitizen: How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care About

By Christopher Kush • St. Martin's Press (2000)

QUOTE: "[The] World's Smallest Political Quiz tells where you reside on the political spectrum, left, right, or...libertarian."

Libertarianism in One Lesson (Ninth Edition)

By David Bergland • Advocates for Self-Government (2005)

QUOTE: "The following ‘Diamond Chart' displays (and explains) a more accurate spectrum of political positions. It clearly shows there is more to the political map than just ‘right versus left.' It does so by measuring where people stand on two crucial measures -- personal liberty and economic liberty. The chart is based on an analysis of politics developed by Libertarian Party founder David Nolan, and further expanded by Marshall Fritz, founder of the Advocates for Self-Government." [Click on book to order.]

The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System

By Richard Davis • Oxford University Press / US (1999)

QUOTE: "A few candidates emphasized ideology, not themselves. These were primarily Libertarians who used their sites to introduce site visitors to Libertarian philosophy... [They featured] links to libertarian sites, [and] invitations to take what is called The World's Smallest Political Quiz..."

Send In The Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998

By Vin Suprynowicz • Mountain Media (1999)

QUOTE: "To really weed out the libertarians from the authoritarians, you need the diamond-shaped World's Smallest Political Quiz..."

Macroeconomics (Fifth Edition)

By David C. Colander • Irwin/McGraw-Hill (2004)

QUOTE: "Take the world's smallest [political] quiz and report your score. Do you agree with the result?"

History, ICT, and Learning in the Secondary School

Edited by Terry Haydn & Christine Counsell • Falmer Press / UK (2002)

QUOTE: "[For students, the Quiz] offers ways into concepts such as bias, position and propaganda, and the thought that peoples' political ideas will vary according to when and where they live..."

Politics at the Margin: Historical Studies of Public Expression Outside the Mainstream

By Susan Herbst • Cambridge University Press (1994)

QUOTE: "The quiz is interesting on several levels. First, it is a device that encourages self-confrontation and dissonance: It forces people to think about the consistency (or lack of consistency) in their own ideological frameworks. ...The quiz is also interesting because of what it does not do. It does not capitalize on the quiz-takers' emotions, their guilt, or their fears."

Lesbians, Gays & the Empowerment Perspective

By Carol Thorpe Tully • Columbia University Press (2000)

QUOTE: "If you have ever wondered about your personal orientation on the liberal to conservative continuum, perhaps you would like to take the World's Smallest Political Quiz. ...This Diamond Chart provides a more three-dimensional view of the generally viewed as two-dimensional conservative liberal continuum."

The American Zone

By L. Neil Smith • Tor Books (2001)

QUOTE: "I'd also like to acknowledge the groundbreaking brainwork of David F. Nolan, founder of the Libertarian Party, and Marshall Fritz, founder of Advocates for Self-Government and the Separation of School and State Foundation, in devising the [World's Smallest Political Quiz's] political diamond Lucy describes in Chapter 17."

The Philosophy of Taxation and Public Finance

By Robert W. McGee • Springer Books (2004)

QUOTE: "For a summary of the attributes of the the four classifications of political systems, see The World's Smallest Political Quiz... For more on this approach to the classification of the political spectrum, contact [the] Advocates for Self-Government... "

Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression

By Mary J. Ruwart • Sunstar Press (2003)

QUOTE: "The Advocates' Website also boasts the World's Smallest Political Quiz, which helps you place yourself on the political diamond. A major polling firm found that 16% of Americans fall into the libertarian quadrant, although only 2% identified themselves with that label." [Click on book to order.]

Citizenship Through Secondary History (Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools Series)

By James Arthur, Ian Davies, Andrew Wrenn, & David Kerr • Falmer Press / UK (2001)

QUOTE: "...A very quick but interesting exercise to find out your true political identity; it can help pupils to develop an understanding of terms such as libertarian, liberal and authoritarian."

Politics on the Net

By Bill Mann • Que (1995)

QUOTE: "Give this quiz a try. It's fun, and who knows, you may be surprised at what you find."

Il libertarismo: La teoria, gli autori, le politiche

By Piero Vernaglione • Rubbettino / Italy (2003)

QUOTE: "Ciascun individuo, partito o teoria politica potrebbero essere posizionati, in base alle proprie convinzioni politico-culturali..."

Translation: "Every individual, party, or political theory could be positioned [on the World's Smallest Political Quiz], based on their own political-cultural convictions..."

The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World

By Frederick Cookinham • iUniverse, Inc. (2005)

QUOTE: "Among the miscellaneous items in the museum's collection will be things like the World's Smallest Political Quiz, developed by Marshall Fritz around 1985 for his libertarian group, the Advocates for Self Government..."

Converging Media: An Introduction to Mass Communication

By John Pavlik & Shawn McIntosh • Allyn & Bacon (2004)

QUOTE: "Shows where you are on the political spectrum."

Political Science: An Introduction (Seventh Edition)

By Michael G. Roskin, Robert L. Cord, James A. Medeiros, & Walter S. Jones • Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1999)

QUOTE: "The World's Smallest Political Quiz can help you find your political identity."