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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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This position is 50.6 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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This position is 1.3 points from this collection’s median.
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Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
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.
A plural critique of universalism, linear progress, and grand narratives. In a Foucauldian reading, genealogy and power/knowledge analysis show how institutions, norms, and discourses produce subjects and open possibilities for local resistance.
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Clerical FascismThird position39.6 / 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 investor and founder of the Open Society Foundations, Soros defends liberal democracy, human rights, civil society, multiculturalism, drug policy reform, secularism, and open institutions against authoritarianism and closed nationalism.
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A northeastern US state, Massachusetts is a progressive stronghold and a hub of education and science, with prestigious universities, a strong liberal tradition, and politics focused on social rights and innovation.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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