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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Replying to @jd_pressman @JonHaidt
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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Replying to @StefanoZorzi @vgr and
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.
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