Liberal Centrism
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.
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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.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a fiscally responsible liberal democracy, open to the world, far from heavy statism and libertarian radicalism.
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This position is 28.3 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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This position is 1.2 points from this collection’s median.
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A British journalist and essayist, Wooldridge is one of the leading defenders of meritocracy, arguing that selection by merit and ability drove the modern world and needs to be renewed in our time.
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