Portrait of John Howard
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John Howard

Prime Minister of Australia, 1996 to 2007

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Introduced a goods and services tax and tough gun laws after the Port Arthur massacre, and joined the 2003 Iraq invasion.

John Howard sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly interventionist on interventionism, strongly free market on economy and strongly traditional on culture.

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Where John Howard 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 free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like John Howard

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People furthest from John Howard

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Political views closest to John Howard

NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…99%Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.98%Hawkish realismSees the world as a contest between states, where military strength and alliances secure…97%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…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: © Commonwealth of Australia 2011, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.