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Leading figure of republican Gaullism and two-term French president, blending defense of the French social model and pragmatic privatization with assertive diplomatic independence in refusing the 2003 Iraq War.
Political axes
Jacques Chirac leans further toward democracy than 74% of the 567 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Jacques Chirac stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Jacques Chirac sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 261 ideologies
Defense of monarchy as a symbol of unity and continuity, with the king subject to the constitution and parliament, uniting tradition and institutional stability with representative democracy and the rule of law.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
A current that sees the unitary, centralized state as the guarantor of individual liberty: uniform law, secularism and single citizenship dismantle the local, clerical and corporate privileges that would oppress the individual without a strong national power.
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GeoanarchismAnarchist42%
Brazilian politician and writer who served as president of the Chamber of Deputies and federal minister. Known for nationalist sovereignty, defense of Amazonian development and agribusiness, and staunch opposition to foreign environmental NGOs.
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A democratic republic between Russia and China, Mongolia left communist rule in 1990 and has competitive elections, a mining-dependent market economy, a nomadic tradition, and a revival of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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