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Haile Selassie

Emperor of Ethiopia, 1930 to 1974

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Modernized Ethiopia, appealed to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion and helped found the Organization of African Unity. He was deposed in 1974.

Haile Selassie sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly religious on religion and strongly traditional on culture.

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Where Haile Selassie 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 state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Haile Selassie

CorporatismOrganizes society into industry and professional bodies that bargain with the state, an…96%GaullismA French tradition of national independence, a strong presidency and a leading role for…96%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.95%One-nation conservatismA paternalist conservatism holding that the better off owe duties to the poor and to…94%

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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: unknown; according to [1] and [2] an official portrait of which b/w copies were distributed by the Ethiopian government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.