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Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
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I want a Muslim party that wins elections, protects family and faith in public life and makes the market economy grow.
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Leans further toward religious than 85% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Grand Mufti of Egypt and father of Islamic modernism, Abduh argued for reinterpreting Islam through reason (ijtihad), reformed teaching at Al-Azhar and the religious courts, and opposed both clerical stagnation and British rule.
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A presidential republic between Europe and Asia, Turkey combines electoral democracy with strong concentration of power, nationalism, religious conservatism, and an assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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A unitary presidential republic marked by severe political instability and successive presidential removals, with an open economy based on mining, widespread labor informality, and deep inequality between the coast and the Andean and Amazonian regions.
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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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Closest within Right
Conservatism that protects institutions, family and order without doctrinal rigidity: it allows gradual reform and concessions in order to conserve the essential, in the line of Burke and Disraeli, rather than restoring an idealized past.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
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Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
Defense of monarchy as a symbol of unity and continuity, with the king subject to the constitution and parliament, uniting tradition and institutional stability with representative democracy and the rule of law.
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CommunalismAnarchist34%
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