In general, the researchers invited there all have strong ideologies and clear political positions. "You can say, relatively anticommunist and right wing," says Fan Yi-chun, a history Ph.D. at Stanford. It acts as a think tank for the Republican Party.
由於胡佛研究所的研究目標，是以瞭解戰爭真相以消弭戰亂、追求世界和平為主，此地聘請來的研究員也都有極強的意識型態，和明顯的政治立場，「可以說比較反共和右派」，史丹福歷史博士范毅軍說，它也是美國共和黨的智囊團。