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Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany, 2005 to 2021

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A physicist who steered the EU through the euro crisis, opened Germany to over a million refugees in 2015 and phased out nuclear power after Fukushima.

Angela Merkel sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and slightly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, leaning nature-first on environment and leaning globalist on nation.

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Where Angela Merkel sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Angela Merkel

Mario Draghi Prime Minister of Italy, 2021 to 202299%Adolfo Suárez Prime Minister of Spain, 1976 to 198199%Romano Prodi Prime Minister of Italy, 1996 to 1998 and 2006 to 200899%Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of Liberia, 2006 to 201899%Valéry Giscard d’Estaing President of France, 1974 to 198199%Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa, 1999 to 200899%Christine Lagarde President of the European Central Bank, 2019 to present99%Ben Bernanke American economist and former Federal Reserve chairman99%

People furthest from Angela Merkel

Mao Zedong Chairman of the Communist Party of China, 1943 to 197618%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 194520%Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 195320%Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 194020%

Political views closest to Angela Merkel

Social market economyKeeps markets competitive but backs them with rules, social insurance and partnership…99%OrdoliberalismFavors competitive markets protected by firm rules and a strong state, the basis of…99%Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.97%KeynesianismSupports government spending and central bank action to smooth recessions and protect…96%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.