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A political self-portrait

Where Do You Stand on the Issues?

Straight to the 11 questions that matter.

First, what this is not

This will not tell you which party you belong to. A party is a team. It changes positions and holds people who believe very different things.

It measures your political tradition: your answer to three old questions. What is government for? What does it owe you? Who gets the final say?

Most people hold two or three of the sixteen at once. Civic Republicanism is not the Republican Party, and Social Liberalism is not the Democratic Party.

Think of your results as if they are clay on a potter’s wheel. Eleven big questions about government, each with two ends, each asked four ways: two that pull one way, two that pull the other. As it spins, your strongest convictions draw the clay outward, and whatever you’re unsure of settles in the middle. What remains is your political fingerprint, one of more than 2.3 quadrillion possible shapes. The test then allows you to visually compare your results overlapping sixteen political traditions, across all eleven dimensions with a simple selection, and it will show you how close you stand to each.

I took it first. My answers and full profile are on this page for anyone to read.

I do not collect your answers. Everything is scored on your own device and your answers are never sent anywhere. The only copy is yours. Like every page on this site, this page reports basic loading-speed numbers to the site’s host, and those never include your answers. Details are in the privacy policy.

Your answers A blank slate. Answer all 44, then read your profile.
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Heads up: if you use this feature, any statement you skip is answered the way that tradition would, so your results will be skewed toward that theory.
Eleven questions, four statements each. or