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Figure · 1874–1936
G. K. Chesterton
Writer
English writer, author of the Father Brown stories and, with Hilaire Belloc, a theorist of distributism.
«Property should be spread among many families, not concentrated in capitalists or the state.»
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On the traditional scale, G. K. Chesterton sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on religion: strongly towards “religion”; society: strongly towards “tradition”; devolution: strongly towards “federalism”; technology: fairly towards “caution”. On state, foreign policy, justice and immigration it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is distributism (98%).
Position on the 13 axes
G. K. ChestertonYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
DistributismThe Smallholder-Owner98%Communitarian personalismThe Community Steward97%CommunitarianismThe Good Neighbor96%Closest parties in Europe
Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija – Krikščioniškų šeimų sąjungaLithuania94%
Kristelig FolkepartiNorway93%
AontúIreland90%
Kresťanskodemokratické hnutieSlovakia89%Similar figures
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