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A German sociologist and founder of modern sociology, Weber analyzed rational-legal bureaucracy, distinguished types of legitimate authority, and linked the Protestant ethic to the spirit of capitalism, without prescribing a political program of his own.
Political topics
Max Weber leans further toward irreligious than 77% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Max Weber stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Max Weber sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 263 ideologies
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
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.
The most distant ideology
Agrarian AnarchismAnarchist37%
An American entrepreneur, Karp leads Palantir and symbolizes a security-focused technocracy that brings together state, defense, data, and artificial intelligence, defending strategic technology in the service of Western democracies.
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A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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Proclaimed after Napoleon III's fall in 1870, the French Third Republic was a durable parliamentary regime, with secularism in 1905, free public schooling, a colonial empire, the Dreyfus Affair, victory in the Great War and collapse before Germany in 1940.
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