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Eighteenth-century European intellectual movement that champions reason, science and tolerance against superstition and absolutism, with natural rights, separation of powers, education and progress as the basis of society.
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I want a society guided by reason, science and tolerance, with natural rights, separated powers and the law placed above throne and altar.
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Leans further toward globalism than 89% of the 276 ideologies in the catalog.
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A French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, he attacked religious fanaticism and the Church ("crush the infamous thing"), championed free speech and tolerance in the Calas affair, but favored enlightened monarchy over popular democracy. Deist, author of Candide.
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A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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Brazil's most populous and wealthiest state, São Paulo is the country's industrial and financial engine, marked by strong economic liberalism, a cosmopolitan culture, and decisive weight in national politics.
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Under David Lange's Labour government and minister Roger Douglas, New Zealand privatized state firms, cut farm subsidies, opened trade and deregulated the economy, keeping democracy and its anti-nuclear policy.
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Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
Current of Brazil's PSDB, founded in 1988 by Covas, Montoro and Cardoso, joining a market economy, social state, state reform and fiscal responsibility with parliamentarism and moderation on social issues.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
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Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Economic philosophy founded by Henry George holding that natural resources and land belong to the whole community, advocating a single land value tax (LVT) and the abolition of taxes on labor and capital.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
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