A field guide to the American voter
The field guide
How Americans really line up, explained plainly and with the sources to check. Nonpartisan, like everything at We the Panel.
Liberal, conservative, or neither?
Most Americans can pick a label. Far fewer hold views that match it all the way down. Here’s what the surveys show about where people really stand, and why one word rarely says it all.
· 7 min read
Politically homeless? You’re not alone
If neither party feels like yours, you have plenty of company. Here is what the best surveys say about Americans who don’t fit the two-party mold, and why it matters.
· 6 min read
What is a political typology?
Instead of placing everyone on one line from left to right, a typology sorts people into groups with similar values. Here’s how the best-known ones work, what they’ve found, and where they fall short.
· 8 min read
The political compass, explained
For more than two centuries, politics has been pictured as a line from left to right. Here’s where that line came from, why researchers added a second axis, and what two-axis maps get right and wrong.
· 9 min read
Meet the nine types
We the Panel maps views on two scales, the economy and society, which gives nine American political types. Find yours in five minutes.
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