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A Brazilian statesman, Vargas shaped modern Brazil with developmentalist nationalism, state-directed industrialization, and labor legislation, founding Brazilian labourism and marking decades of national politics.
Political axes
Getúlio Vargas leans further toward autocracy than 77% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Getúlio Vargas stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, Getúlio Vargas sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian25%
Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, Joseph II abolished personal serfdom, decreed religious tolerance, closed hundreds of monasteries, imposed German on the administration and saw his reforms provoke revolts, in Belgium and Hungary.
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A post-Soviet presidential republic, Belarus is ruled by an authoritarian, personalist regime, with strong state control of the economy, repression of the opposition, and a close political alliance with Russia.
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Under Vargas, Brazil experienced a nationalist, developmentalist regime that promoted state-directed industrialization, labor legislation, and the centralization of power, laying the foundations of Brazilian labourism.
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