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A Florentine diplomat and thinker, Machiavelli analyzed political power realistically, valuing virtù, one's own military force, reason of state, and republican institutions capable of preserving liberty and civic greatness.
Political axes
Niccolò Machiavelli leans further toward nationalist than 81% of the 562 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Intervention is where Niccolò Machiavelli stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Niccolò Machiavelli sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
Current that combines popular sovereignty and democratic institutions with strong cultural nationalism, prioritizing the nation's interests and identity over supranational commitments and multiculturalism.
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.
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GeoanarchismAnarchist36%
A Brazilian physician and politician, Enéas championed economic nationalism, technological sovereignty, nuclear energy, strong armed forces, and state planning, becoming a popular symbol of national developmentalism.
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An industrial northeastern state and cradle of the Constitution, Pennsylvania is split between Democratic Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a conservative interior, with shale gas, a union tradition, hunting culture and a state monopoly on wine and spirits.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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