Who made this, and why

Nobody pays for this site. There are no advertisements, no sponsorship and no paid placement of any party in any result. No party has been given a preview of the statements or any influence over how its positions are coded.

Running costs are met out of our own pockets, topped up by small voluntary contributions from readers. A contribution buys nothing: no influence over the statements, the coding or the results. If any other money ever comes in — a grant, an institutional host, advertising — it will be stated on this page, with the amount and the source, before it takes effect.

Most political quizzes are short, and a short quiz cannot separate two positions that differ on a handful of issues. Many do not say which questions produced which result, where the party positions came from, or when they were coded. Some are made by organisations with an interest in the answer.

This is an attempt at the opposite: a hundred statements, one published formula, party positions coded by hand from published platforms, and an account of the method that can be read in full before answering. It is also unfinished. Countries are added one at a time as we read through their parties' platforms, which is slow, and the list is short because of it.

The site takes no position on any of the hundred statements and no position on any party. No result is treated as better, more reasonable or more moderate than another; parties in a result are ordered by measured agreement and nothing else.

Complete neutrality is not achievable. Choosing which hundred statements to ask, how to word them, which axis each belongs to and how a party's platform should be coded are all judgements, and they shape what the survey can find. Those judgements are set out on How it works, so that they can be disputed.