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David F. Nolan, 66, founder of the Libertarian Party and developer of a method of analyzing political attitudes superior to the old linear left-right spectrum, died Sunday near his home in Tucson. He will be missed, especially by many who knew him well when he lived in Orange County, but his contributions to the cause of human liberty will not be forgotten.
Mr. Nolan grew up in Maryland and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a classmate of Robert Poole, co-founder of Reason magazine and the Reason Foundation. Influenced by science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, he was an active libertarian in college. After college he moved to Denver where he went into advertising. In 1971, sitting with friends and watching Richard Nixon announce wage and price controls, he declared, “We need another party,” and started the Committee to Form a Libertarian Party. The party in 1972 ran USC philosophy professor John Hospers for president.
Unsatisfied with the old left-right spectrum for describing political attitudes, Mr. Nolan refined what became known as the Nolan Chart, a grid on which attitudes toward personal freedom and economic freedom are charted, yielding a square in which liberal, conservative, statist, centrist and libertarian tendencies are
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I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Coeval Libertarians
•Walter Block
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Nolan Chart
Political spectrum diagram
The Nolan Chart is a political spectrum diagram created by Americanlibertarian activist David Nolan in 1969, charting political views along two axes, representing economic freedom and personal freedom. It expands political view analysis beyond the traditional one-dimensional left–right/progressive-conservative divide, positioning libertarianism outside the traditional spectrum.
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[edit]The claim that political positions can be located on a chart with two axes: left–right (economics) and tough–tender (authoritarian-libertarian) was put forward by the British psychologist Hans Eysenck in his 1954 book The Psychology of Politics with statistical evidence based on survey data.[1] This leads to a loose classification of political positions into four quadrants, with further detail based on exact position within the quadrant.[2]
A similar two-dimensional chart appeared in 1970 in the publication The Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer, but that work distinguished between the axes collectivism–capitalism on the one hand, individualism–totalitarianism on the other, with anarchism, fascism, "state communism" and "capitalist individualism" in the corners.[3] In Radi