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A founder of the United States, Hamilton championed strong federal government, robust public finances, a national bank, and industrialization, combining constitutional republicanism with modernizing economic nationalism.
Political axes
Alexander Hamilton leans further toward protectionism than 91% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Alexander Hamilton stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Alexander Hamilton sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
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.
Justicialist doctrine of Juan and Eva Perón uniting political sovereignty, economic independence and social justice, with CGT unions, nationalizations, protected industrialization, social Catholicism and a charismatic leader above parties.
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GeoanarchismAnarchist24%
German philosopher, Hegel conceived history as the dialectical unfolding of freedom and saw in the rational state, above civil society and the isolated individual, the concrete realisation of ethical life.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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A powerful medieval merchant republic, Venice was governed by a commercial oligarchy that dominated Mediterranean trade, uniting stable institutions, a strong navy, and immense economic power for centuries.
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