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Germany's largest federal state, Bavaria combines strong regional identity and Catholicism, historic dominance by the CSU, cutting-edge industry (BMW, Siemens), and active defense of its fiscal and cultural autonomy from Berlin.
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This position is 45.1 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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This position is 0.1 points from this collection’s median.
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Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
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Techno-SocialismEsquerda Radical50.7 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
An Austrian politician and heir of the Habsburgs, Otto was a defender of constitutional monarchy, European federalism, and continental integration, serving for decades as a European parliamentarian and critic of totalitarianism.
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A southern state settled by Azorean and other European immigrants, Santa Catarina has a high human development index, a diversified small- and medium-business economy, and a predominantly conservative electorate.
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British colonies on the North American Atlantic coast, with assemblies of white property owners, governors appointed by the Crown, established and dissenting churches, trade under the Navigation Acts, slavery in the South and expansion into Indigenous lands.
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