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Imperial dynasty of Iran from 1925 to 1979, from Reza Shah to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It imposed authoritarian modernization, Persian nationalism, secularization and an alliance with the West, with a political police (SAVAK), until the Islamic Revolution.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 73% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 266 ideologies
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
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 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-NaturismAnarchist28%
Syrian president from 2000 to 2024, Bashar al-Assad preserved his family’s Ba’athist regime through repression, a clientelist economy, and Russian-Iranian backing in the civil war; he was overthrown and lives in exile in Russia.
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Other compatible profiles
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Park Chung-hee's party, in power in South Korea from 1963 to 1980. It sustained a developmental dictatorship, with five-year plans, export-led industrialization, chaebols, anticommunism, a political police (KCIA) and the 1972 Yushin Constitution.
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