- An Introduction that defines the program's purpose.
- A Tutorial that explains the traditional liberal-conservative labels, introduces a two-dimensional ideological typology, and asks students to classify themselves according to the four-fold ideology typology described in The Challenge of Democracy, a college text on American government by Kenneth Janda, Jeffrey Berry, and Jerry Goldman.
- The Self-Test that requires students to answer twenty questions--drawn from national surveys--which are equally divided between the conflict of individual freedom vs. social order, and the conflict of individual freedom vs. social equality. Based on their responses, students are classified into one of four ideological types. Their ideological scores are then compared with the scores for the public's responses to the same twenty questions. Should instructors want students to take the Self-Test more than once, the program keeps track of up to three trials or "iterations."
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