{"id":312128,"date":"2026-06-10T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=312128"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:24:19","slug":"how-foreign-policy-values-and-issues-cut-across-the-political-typology-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2026\/06\/10\/how-foreign-policy-values-and-issues-cut-across-the-political-typology-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"How foreign policy values and issues cut across the political typology groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans\u2019 partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and attitudes that underlie the political landscape and the Republican and Democratic parties. We did this by creating a political typology, which classifies the public into nine groups based on their responses to 30 questions about government, economics, immigration, elected officials and other topics. To learn more about this project, jump to \u201cAbout the political typology<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center conducts research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important topics. We have studied Americans\u2019 political values and attitudes, and their views on politics more broadly, for decades. This is the ninth version of the political typology<\/a>; the first was conducted nearly 40 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We surveyed 10,357 U.S. adults from Nov. 17 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel. The survey represents the views of the full U.S. adult population. We then used a statistical technique called cluster analysis to divide people into nine groups. (For more on the process of dividing people into groups and surveys used for analysis, jump to Appendix B<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the survey questions<\/a> used for this analysis, the detailed responses<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 Pew Research Center political typology reveals a rich portrait of how Americans view the nation\u2019s place in the world, the strength and use of its power, its relationships with other nations and many current foreign policy hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While some foreign policy dynamics in the typology track traditional ideological and partisan divides, that is not always the case. In some cases, foreign policy attitudes reveal splits within the partisan coalitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This analysis is part of Pew Research Center\u2019s 2026 Political Typology. To learn more about the typology, start with the overview<\/a><\/em>. To find which group is your best fit,\u00a0take the quiz<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. as superpower, U.S. as ally<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Most Americans say it is at least somewhat important for the United States to be the only military superpower in the world (71%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, 62% of Americans hold the view that the U.S. should take into account the interests of its allies, even if it means making compromises with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the majority positions across five of the nine political typology groups \u2013 including some groups that are more to the right in their overall values, and some that are more to the left:<\/p>\n\n\n\n