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Combines national self-determination and popular sovereignty with social equality and left-wing economic policies. Its historical expressions range from anticolonial and socialist to developmentalist movements, without a single economic or institutional program.
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I want to join national self-determination with social equality, use the state to develop the economy, and secure popular participation and social rights.
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Leans further toward democracy than 93% of the 256 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Brazilian economist and former finance minister, Bresser-Pereira formulated new developmentalism, defending a competitive exchange rate, national industry and a reformed state that drives growth without abandoning democracy.
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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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A Midwestern state dominated by Chicago, Illinois combines a Democratic political machine with a history of corruption, strong public-sector unions, a huge pension debt, strict gun laws, liberalized social policy and a conservative agricultural interior.
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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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System in which collectively or publicly owned enterprises compete in markets, uniting the efficiency of competition with the socialist distribution of profits, without the rigid central planning of state economies.
Current that unites socialist goals of equality and social justice with the defense of individual freedoms and democracy, combining strong social protection with pluralism, civil rights, and a mixed economy.
Current that seeks to reconcile capitalism and social justice through democracy, defending regulated markets, a strong welfare state, labor rights, and redistribution to reduce social inequalities.
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Political tradition that values popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and the rule of law, defending citizens' self-government, the separation of powers, and protection against tyranny and the corruption of power.
Nationalism based on citizenship and shared values rather than ethnicity, defining the nation by adherence to common laws and institutions, open to all who accept its democratic and civic principles.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight30%