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Figure · 1469–1527
Niccolò Machiavelli
Secretary and historian
Florentine politician and historian, author of The Prince and the Discourses.
«Politics has its own rules, separate from private morality.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Niccolò Machiavelli sits in the law-and-order right camp. The clearest positions are on foreign policy: strongly towards “interventionism”; state: strongly towards “authority”; sovereignty: strongly towards “sovereignty”; justice: strongly towards “tough on crime”. On economy, society and democracy it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is bonapartism (94%).
Position on the 13 axes
Niccolò MachiavelliYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
BonapartismThe Consul94%Civic nationalismThe Defender of Citizenship89%Patriotic socialismThe Sovereign Partisan89%Closest parties in Europe
Dansk FolkepartiDenmark91%
DanmarksdemokraterneDenmark91%
SverigedemokraternaSweden90%
Conservative PartyUnited Kingdom88%Similar figures
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