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An English philosopher, Hobbes founded a contractualist theory of the sovereign state, defending strong central authority to contain civil war, guarantee security, and subordinate religious and factional conflicts to public peace.
Political axes
Thomas Hobbes leans further toward autocracy than 84% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Thomas Hobbes stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Thomas Hobbes sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Model in which the state directs industrialization and economic growth through planning, public investment, and industrial protection, seeking to overcome the nation's backwardness and external dependence.
Pragmatic reform initiated by Deng Xiaoping that introduced markets, private property, and economic opening under the absolute control of the Communist Party, forming the model of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian31%
A Florentine diplomat and thinker, Machiavelli analyzed political power realistically, valuing virtù, one's own military force, reason of state, and republican institutions capable of preserving liberty and civic greatness.
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A single-party socialist state, Vietnam maintains the Communist Party's political control alongside market reforms that opened the economy, promoting rapid industrial growth and integration into global trade.
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A German kingdom with a strong military and administrative tradition, Prussia united monarchy, a disciplined bureaucracy, and a powerful army, leading German unification and embodying the cameralist state and enlightened despotism.
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