Have there been any studies or theories why, around the world, even in multiparty parliamentary democracies, the left/right axis has emerged as the dominant one?
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Hmm I think Haidt’s model can at best be said to assume it as a given and explore it via statistical correlations to traits, not explain it. It’s a history problem not a psychology one, since it’s specific to fairly recent 200 years history rather than part of all human history.
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Well, I guess you know the origin of the use. Afterwards I would say that the presence of a socialist movement created the polarization by exclusion
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But then in Italy (and also in Germany) after ww2 there was t really a right, only left and centre. Naturally though even some from the centre need to sit on the right in the hemicycle
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I don’t think seating geometry is that important other than in the origin of the terms. It’s a superficial aspect. You can have factional structures and n-dimensional coalitions arguing in a hemicyclic geometry.
The classical balance _is_ a three way balance of power:
The dictator + the proles vs the oligarchs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populares
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimates
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