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A French philosopher, Renan defined the nation as a daily plebiscite, founded on the will to live together and shared memory, offering the intellectual basis of civic nationalism as opposed to ethnic nationalism.
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Ernest Renan leans further toward irreligious than 93% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Ernest Renan stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Ernest Renan sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current inspired by John Maynard Keynes that accepts markets and liberal democracy but gives the state the task of managing demand, with countercyclical public spending, full employment as a goal and a mixed economy.
Kant's political philosophy, grounding the state's legitimacy in the autonomy of reason and the rule of law, defending a moderate representative republicanism and a federation of free states as the path to perpetual peace.
Defense of monarchy as a symbol of unity and continuity, with the king subject to the constitution and parliament, uniting tradition and institutional stability with representative democracy and the rule of law.
The most distant ideology
FeudalismFar-Right34%
A British economist, Keynes formulated modern macroeconomics and championed the use of fiscal policy, public investment, and demand management to stabilize liberal capitalism without abolishing private property.
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A former Serbian province, Kosovo declared independence in 2008, recognized by about half of the UN but not by Serbia, Russia and China. An Albanian-majority secular parliamentary republic with a Serb minority, NATO troops and a remittance economy.
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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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