A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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This position is 36.2 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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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.
The socialist strand of Zionism that built the State of Israel through the kibbutzim, the Histadrut labor federation, and Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, uniting Jewish nationalism, collective work on the land, and a secular welfare state.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertário53.9 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
A French statesman, Macron reached France's presidency as a centrist, liberal reformer, defending markets, European integration, and economic reforms, seeking to overcome the traditional divide between left and right.
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An island presidential republic, Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and global technology hub, especially semiconductors, living under constant military threat from China, and is Asia's pioneer in progressive causes such as marriage equality.
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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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