The value circle splits left from right — in the West

Western pool (18 countries): all 10 values lean the way the theory predicts. Conformity leans furthest right (+0.117), Universalism furthest left (−0.193).

• Leans right
• Leans left
• 95% interval
• Zero ring: no association

Each value sits at its place on Schwartz’s circle; only the radii are data. A mark’s distance from the zero ring is the weighted, standardized association between valuing it and placing oneself on the 0 (left) to 10 (right) scale: outward and warm when valuing it more goes with placing oneself further right, inward and teal when it goes with further left. The four shaded sectors are the higher-order axes; each axis is scored from all of its values’ items at once, so its wedge can reach past every one of its values. Hover a sector or a dot, or tab into the wheel and use the arrow keys, for the interval and N.

Method: per-Schwartz-value weighted standardized LPM slope of left-right on the value (left-right and the value z-scored WITHIN the pool; the standardized slope equals the within-pool correlation, now with a 95% CI). Western pool for the circumplex; Western vs post-communist for the per-region contrast; per-country slopes on all four higher-order axes; per-country weighted mean value positions (saturated WLS predictions with delta-method CIs). Orientation: hv_* MRAT-centred, higher=more important; lr_scale 0=Left..10=Right; signs fixed in advance from Schwartz theory, never from the estimated slope. Weighting: ESS anweight ('weight'); cross-country summaries equal-weight each country. Suppression: per-country slope cells with fewer than 300 interviews (raw rows) dropped; per-country mean cells with effective (Kish) N < 100 dropped. Left–right here is self-placement, not party identification.