BrazilDilma Rousseff was Brazil's first woman president, serving for the Workers' Party from 2011 until her impeachment in 2016. She has chaired the BRICS New Development Bank since 2023, and her government favoured state-led development and social spending.
In the 12 Axes register, Dilma Rousseff leans hardest on Assimilationist – Multiculturalist: Multiculturalist 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Dilma Rousseff sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Federal
Governed Brazil's federation of 26 states
Representative Democracy
Elected in 2010 and 2014, removed by Senate 2016
Centrist
Created the Truth Commission; proposed the 2016 anti-terror law
Cooperation
Promoted BRICS and Mercosur cooperation
Neutral
Kept Brazil's neutral defence posture
Multiculturalist
Signed the 2012 federal university quotas law
Social Democratic
Expanded Bolsa Família through the Brasil sem Miséria plan
Interventionism
Promoted a state-led 'new economic matrix'
Limited Trade
Backed Petrobras local-content rules for shipbuilding
Moderate
Raised Catholic, secular in office
Progressive
Signed the 2015 Feminicide Law
Neutral
As energy minister, ran Luz para Todos electrification
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Dilma Rousseff is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Dilma Rousseff is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.cidob.org
Portrait: Vice-Presidência da República, CC BY 2.0, 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].
