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Verdun military hero and head of the collaborationist Vichy regime, instituting the authoritarian corporatist 'National Revolution' under the motto 'Work, Family, Fatherland', abolishing republican institutions.
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Philippe Pétain leans further toward autocracy than 89% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Philippe Pétain stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Philippe Pétain sits practically at the catalog median.
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Authoritarian, corporatist, Catholic regime of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg (1934–1938): single party (Fatherland Front), a Ständestaat inspired by Quadragesimo Anno, repression of socialists and Nazis, and defense of a German, Christian, independent Austria.
Plato's political philosophy, entrusting the city's government to a philosophical elite formed by virtue and knowledge, with strong control over education, property and customs in the name of justice and social harmony.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
A Brazilian writer and Integralism leader, Barroso headed the Brazilian Integralist Action militia and promoted authoritarian nationalism and conspiratorial antisemitism, in contrast with Plínio Salgado's more moderate line.
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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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Temporal state of the Papacy, the Papal States united spiritual and political authority under the Pope, applying canon law and clerical government over central Italy for centuries.
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