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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.
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I want a militant democracy that watches extremists, bans anti-system parties and keeps military service to shield the constitutional order.
Political topics
Leans further toward security than 76% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
West Germany's first chancellor, Adenauer consolidated Christian democracy, the social market economy, and the country's integration into the West, rebuilding the nation after the war and anchoring it in Europe.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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The largest constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is governed directly by Westminster with no parliament of its own, with an established Church of England, a public health service (NHS), a financial centre in London, a Brexit majority and a growing populist vote.
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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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1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Armed neutrality that refuses alliances, interventions and foreign projection, yet sustains robust armed forces, compulsory service and prepared territorial defense, treating military strength as the guarantee of not being dragged into other nations wars.
Current of Brazil's PSDB, founded in 1988 by Covas, Montoro and Cardoso, joining a market economy, social state, state reform and fiscal responsibility with parliamentarism and moderation on social issues.
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Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
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.
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian42%