A deeper look at your politics. 89 balanced statements scored on four independent axes: economics, civil liberty, society and diplomacy. Free, with no account needed.
What you will learn
Where you stand on economic, civil, society and diplomatic questions, each from -100 to +100.
The political traditions that best match your four scores, ranked by how close they are.
Your four scores are also combined into a point on the classic two-axis compass.
A shareable link and image that carry your scores, never your individual answers.
The axes
Each axis runs from -100 to +100 and is scored independently of the others.
Public action, redistribution and shared ownership on one side. Private property, competition and free exchange on the other.
Personal freedom, privacy and limits on government on one side. Order, security and a strong state on the other.
Reform and changing norms on one side. Continuity, inherited customs and long-standing institutions on the other.
International cooperation and shared institutions on one side. National sovereignty and national interest on the other.
Sample statements
You will see one statement at a time and answer on a 7-point scale, from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".
Lowering taxes on businesses leads to more jobs and higher wages.
Police should have more power to stop and search people they find suspicious.
Religious values should play an important role in public life.
A country should put its own interests ahead of global cooperation.
FAQ
It measures four axes. Economic: equality versus markets. Civil: liberty versus authority. Society: progress versus tradition. Diplomatic: global cooperation versus national sovereignty.
The Political Values Test has 89 statements and takes about 12 minutes.
A compass test reduces your views to two axes. The values test keeps civil liberty and social tradition separate and adds a diplomatic axis, so two people at the same compass point can still have quite different profiles.
Statements describe policies and values without naming parties or politicians. Every axis has statements keyed in both directions to cancel out a general tendency to agree, and the scoring method is published in full.
No account is needed. Individual answers are stored only if you opt in to research, and they are never sold.
The statements were written for this site, drawing on published frameworks such as the Pew Research political typology, Moral Foundations Theory and the Nolan chart, then reviewed for balance and plain language.
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