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Figure · 1904–1997
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese leader
Chinese leader who launched market reforms after Mao while keeping the party's monopoly on power.
«It doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches mice.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Deng Xiaoping sits in the law-and-order center-right camp. The clearest positions are on state: strongly towards “authority”; environment: strongly towards “growth”; democracy: strongly towards “technocracy”; religion: strongly towards “secularism”. Among ideologies, the closest is authoritarian technocracy (94%).
Position on the 13 axes
Deng XiaopingYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Authoritarian technocracyThe Administrator94%NeoreactionThe CEO-Monarch92%Authoritarian nationalismThe Strongman86%Closest parties in Europe
Conservative PartyUnited Kingdom85%
Les RépublicainsFrance85%
ModeraternaSweden84%
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