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Why ask for political parties? Political views are complicated, if all you can do is pick a party this complexity is lost. All those not from the US (like myself) might additionally have a hard time picking a party.
Those are not easy problems to solve and it is certainly questionable if thinking of some more specific questions about political views and throwing them all together will get you meaningful reliable and valid results. As long as you cannot do better than that asking just for preferred political parties is certainly good enough.
Yes, it might be more useful to list some wedge issues that usually divide the parties in the US.
Those won't divide the parties outside the US. Every political party in Britain aside from the extreme fringe are for the availability of abortion and government provision of free healthcare, for example.
And things that do divide the parties here, like compulsory ID cards, don't divide the parties in the US.
I'm not really interested in actual party divisions so much as I am interested in a survey of beliefs.
Affiliation seems like much less useful information, if we're going to use Aumann-like agreement processes on this survey stuff.