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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 69% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist21%
President of Peru (1990–2000), Fujimori defeated the Shining Path insurgency and curbed hyperinflation through neoliberal shock therapy, but shut down Congress in the 1992 self-coup and was convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.
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