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Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil, 2011 to 2016

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A former guerrilla and Brazil's first woman president, she was impeached in 2016 over budget manipulation, which she called a coup.

Dilma Rousseff sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, leaning progressive on culture and leaning tech-optimist on technology. The profile is close to the middle on nation.

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Where Dilma Rousseff 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.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationCentered on nation
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Dilma Rousseff

Ha-Joon Chang South Korean economist99%Lee Jae-myung President of South Korea, 2025 to present99%Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil, 2003 to 2010 and 2023 to present98%Salvador Allende President of Chile, 1970 to 197398%Clement Attlee UK Prime Minister, 1945 to 195198%Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister of Italy, 2018 to 202198%Andy Burnham Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2026 to present98%Anthony Albanese Prime Minister of Australia, 2022 to present98%

People furthest from Dilma Rousseff

Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202224%Abelardo de la Espriella President of Colombia, 2026 to present27%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199528%Donald Trump US President, 2017 to 2021 and 2025 to present29%

Political views closest to Dilma Rousseff

Modern monetary theoryArgues that governments issuing their own currency can spend to reach full employment,…99%LabourismDraws on trade unions and working-class communities to win better wages, rights and…99%Market socialismCombines worker or public ownership of firms with markets and competition.99%Social democracyKeeps a market economy but adds strong public services, unions and progressive taxes to…98%

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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: Roberto Stuckert Filho/Presidência da República, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.