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Leader of the Portuguese Estado Novo, Salazar ran a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united order, Catholic nationalism, and political control without mass mobilization, keeping the country isolated for decades.
Political axes
António de Oliveira Salazar leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where António de Oliveira Salazar stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, António de Oliveira Salazar sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian22%
A Spanish general and dictator, Franco won the Civil War and ruled for decades over a nationalist, Catholic, authoritarian regime, repressing opponents and preserving a corporatist order until his death.
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A theocratic Islamic republic, Iran combines elected institutions with the supreme authority of the clerics, under the rule of the religious jurist, a state-controlled economy, and strong regional projection in the Middle East.
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Under Salazar, the Portuguese Estado Novo was a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united Catholic nationalism, order, and political control without mass mobilization, holding the country and its colonies for decades.
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