Responding to widespread concerns about how scholars typically measure legislators' ideologies, we propose, implement, and test the efficacy of a novel measurement approach. We employ formal content ...

“VandeHei and Allen have beliefs, but claim to be objective because they consider their right-wing beliefs, particularly on economic issues, to constitute fundamental truths. People with differing ...

A new study shows that when processing political content, the brains of people with extreme views — regardless whether they identify as left or right — show more similarities than those of political ...

The brains of politically extreme individuals, whether left- or right-leaning, appear to respond to and process political information in surprisingly similar ways, according to research published in ...

Conservatism is the dominant political ideology, the incumbent liberal President’s popularity has not topped 47% in the last six months, and the economy is struggling.

– Edmund Burke on conservatism Core conservative ideas were popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries and centered around values like prudence, social continuity and rational thinking. Today these ...

At a closed-door meeting in April, Micah Beckwith and members of what the Indiana lieutenant governor called his Anti-Woke Advisory Committee laid out an aggressive strategy to expand conservative ...

State of American Political Ideology, 2009 A National Study of Values and Beliefs Report by John Halpin and Karl Agne surveys political values and beliefs across the country.

Political ideology is a set of beliefs used as the fundamental basis for political decisions. Each country sits somewhere along a spectrum that spans conservative, nationalist and socialist ...