PortugalAntónio de Oliveira Salazar ruled Portugal from 1932 to 1968 as prime minister of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime. He ran a corporatist, Catholic-conservative dictatorship that defended Portugal's colonial empire and relied on censorship and a secret police.
In the 12 Axes register, António de Oliveira Salazar leans hardest on Democratic – Autocratic: Autocratic 95%; the register median is Democratic 68%.
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Where António de Oliveira Salazar sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centralized
Unitary Portuguese state with centralized control
Autocracy
Estado Novo one-party corporatist dictatorship
Authoritarian
PIDE secret police and censorship
Nationalist
Defended the colonial empire as national identity
Military-Focused
Fought colonial wars in Africa from 1961
Assimilationist
Indigenato statute required natives to assimilate for citizenship
Mixed Economic
Corporatist economy with state-guided syndicates
Balanced
Corporatism as a third way between capitalism and socialism
Limited Trade
Import substitution, then co-founded EFTA in 1960
Religious
"God, Fatherland and Family" motto; 1940 Concordat with Vatican
Reactionary
Traditionalist, Catholic-conservative social order
Neutral
No distinct position on technology
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, António de Oliveira Salazar is at Autocratic 95%. The register median is Democratic 68%.
Collectivize – Privatize
On Collectivize – Privatize, António de Oliveira Salazar is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.enciklopedija.hr
Portrait: Manuel Alves de San Payo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
