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An industrial state led by Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, with strong auto-industry unions and expanded Medicaid. Abortion was restored by Proposal 3 in 2022, and the law that limited union organizing was repealed.
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Leans further toward federal than 89% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Combines national self-determination and popular sovereignty with social equality and left-wing economic policies. Its historical expressions range from anticolonial and socialist to developmentalist movements, without a single economic or institutional program.
Political tradition that values popular sovereignty, civic virtue, and the rule of law, defending citizens' self-government, the separation of powers, and protection against tyranny and the corruption of power.
Nationalism based on citizenship and shared values rather than ethnicity, defining the nation by adherence to common laws and institutions, open to all who accept its democratic and civic principles.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismFar-Right31%
An Italian antifascist thinker, Rosselli formulated liberal socialism, seeking to unite liberalism's ideals of freedom with socialism's social justice, and organized the resistance against Mussolini's regime.
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A Midwestern state dominated by Chicago, Illinois combines a Democratic political machine with a history of corruption, strong public-sector unions, a huge pension debt, strict gun laws, liberalized social policy and a conservative agricultural interior.
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The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
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