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A doctrine separating political authority from social control: it favours concentrated, unelected executive power insulated from popular vote, which in exchange guarantees civil liberty, privacy and minimal state interference in private life and morals.
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I want a strong executive insulated from the popular vote that, in exchange, guarantees civil liberty and does not interfere in private customs.
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Leans further toward free market than 83% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A scathing critic of American democracy, Mencken combined economic libertarianism, Nietzschean elitism, and militant atheism, attacking puritanism, mass culture, and popular faith in newspapers and essays.
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An Asian city-state, Singapore is a parliamentary republic dominated by a single party, combining open capitalism, efficient technocratic management, strict order, and limited political freedoms in the name of progress.
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A Baltic parliamentary republic, Estonia unites liberal democracy, an open economy, an advanced digital state, and strong Euro-Atlantic alignment, remaining vigilant about national sovereignty in the face of Russian pressure.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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Closest within Libertarian
A doctrine combining a minimal state in taxation, regulation and morals with strong armed forces and an armed citizenry: national defense is the one expanded state function, treated as the condition of civil liberty rather than its exception.
Philosophy created by Ayn Rand that exalts reason, individualism, and rational egoism, defending laissez-faire capitalism and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the supreme moral purpose of each person's life.
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
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Right-wing progressive branch that unites capitalism and the cult of technological progress with a socially progressive, pragmatic, and secular culture, entrusting society's direction to a technical elite rather than mass democracy.
Liberalism before mass democracy: it guarantees civil liberty, property, a free press and a lean state, but restricts the vote to educated property owners, fearing that unlimited popular sovereignty would destroy the very liberties it protects.
Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
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