[resource] Political Typology Quiz: Where do you fit in the political typology? Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between?
Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology groups is your best match, compared with a nationally representative survey of more than 10,000 U.S. adults by Pew Research Center. You may find some of these questions are difficult to answer. That’s OK. In those cases, pick the answer that comes closest to your view, even if it isn’t exactly right.
I'm curious how universal these political typologies could be made. I'm sure this one might apply a great deal to a number of western countries, if you change the names accordingly, etc.
Yeah, as a very general tool I think they work somewhat interchangeably among similar countries, though this one has a few specifically US-centric questions that were more difficult to answer. (I just pretended I was American for all of them.)
It absolutely has its faults, but I've always found the two-axis political compass to be the best at more generally arriving at a person's ideology outside of country-specific questions. I take that every few years and keep screenshots of my results to track my trajectory.
As a related point of conversation, something I've always had trouble with a lot of these tests is whether I should answer based on my philosophical or practical beliefs, as there's a bit of a divide there at least for me. Furthermore, the simplified nature of these tests can't really paint a full picture of an individual's beliefs. While any tests will place me on the left libertarian end of the spectrum, my beliefs aren't quite so binary. I consider myself a leftist, but the political philosophy that shaped my beliefs runs the gamut from anarchism & Marxism to classical liberalism and even select conservative philosophers (albeit from previous eras, and I do mean select).