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Founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew transformed the city-state into a model of authoritarian capitalism, uniting open markets, technocratic meritocracy, strict order, and heavily restricted political freedoms.
Political axes
Lee Kuan Yew leans further toward autocracy than 82% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Lee Kuan Yew stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Lee Kuan Yew sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
The most distant ideology
Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist26%
President of Peru (1990–2000), Fujimori defeated the Shining Path insurgency and curbed hyperinflation through neoliberal shock therapy, but shut down Congress in the 1992 self-coup and was convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.
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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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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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