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Joseph Boakai

President of Liberia, 2024 to present

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A former vice president who beat football star George Weah in 2023, promising to fight corruption and rebuild roads under his “ARREST” agenda.

Joseph Boakai sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly religious on religion, leaning traditional on culture and leaning institutional on institutions. The profile is close to the middle on war and peace and interventionism.

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Where Joseph Boakai 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.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceCentered on war and peace
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Joseph Boakai

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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: Cabinet Public Relations Office of the Cabinet Secretariat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.