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Margaret Thatcher

UK Prime Minister, 1979 to 1990

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Britain’s first woman prime minister privatized state industries, curbed union power and fought the 1982 Falklands War. Her free-market reforms still divide opinion.

Margaret Thatcher sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly strength-first on war and peace and strongly interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Margaret Thatcher 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
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Margaret Thatcher

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Political views closest to Margaret Thatcher

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.99%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…97%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…93%BonapartismAuthoritarian rule by a popular leader who claims to embody the nation, with plebiscites…91%

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