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Brazilian philosopher and columnist, Pond? describes himself as a liberal conservative: he supports economic and civil liberties, criticizes moral progressivism and both left- and right-wing populism, and studies religion without adhering to a tradition.
Political axes
Luiz Felipe Pondé leans further toward free market than 89% of the 447 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Luiz Felipe Pondé stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Luiz Felipe Pondé sits close to the catalog median.
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Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left27%
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A European federal confederation, Switzerland is known for its direct democracy, strong cantonal autonomy, historic neutrality, and a prosperous economy based on finance, precision industry, and institutional stability.
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Medieval alliance of autonomous cantons formed from the 1291 Pact, the Old Swiss Confederacy operated without a strong central power, combining direct democracy in local assemblies (Landsgemeinde), independent peasant militias, and weak joint military/diplomatic coordination among the cantons.
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