The rules we hold ourselves to
Methodology
Trust is the product. This page is the contract: where the words come from, what machines do, what humans decide, and what we refuse to do.
Where the words come from
Every claim traces to a primary source: official manifestos, major speeches, parliament records. The corpus is a version-controlled file in a public repository — nothing enters it without a deliberate, reviewable change. We archive every document and always link the canonical URL.
What the machine does
A language model reads each document and extracts policy statements as verbatim quotes. A separate program then verifies each quote appears in the source, word for word. A quote that fails this check can never be published — the software refuses. Hindi and French quotes are shown in the original language with an English translation.
What humans decide
Nothing AI-generated is published automatically. Every statement and summary starts as an unreviewed draft; an editor checks topic, stance, and translation before it goes live. AI-written summaries are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Neutrality rules
- — We show what parties say. We do not editorialize, score, or endorse.
- — Summaries use attributed language: “the manifesto pledges…”, never “the party will…”.
- — Ideology labels come from established references and link to their source. We invent none.
- — The same pipeline, prompts, and review rules apply to every party, in every country.
What our words mean
- Statement
- One verbatim quote from one document, tagged with a topic and a stance. The atomic unit of this site — everything else is built from statements.
- Stance
- What the document does in that quote: supports, opposes, mixed / conditional, or neutral / descriptive. It describes the text, not our opinion of it.
- Party position
- A short summary of what one party says on one topic in one election cycle, written from the verified statements beneath it — never from outside knowledge. Every position lists its evidence.
- Confidence
- High: many consistent statements. Medium: fewer or vaguer. Low: sparse or contradictory — read the quotes yourself.
- Verified in source
- Software confirmed the quote appears word-for-word in the archived source document. Quotes that fail this check are never published.
- Track record
- A party's actual results in past elections — seats and vote share — from established references, each row linking its source. What parties say is the corpus; how voters answered is the record.
Limitations, honestly
The corpus is bounded and curated — major parties, most important documents, not every press release. A missing position means we have no reviewed, sourced statement on it, not that the party has no view. For France, we cross-check against the academic Manifesto Project (MARPOR) data. Party symbols are shown for identification and belong to their parties.