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Silvio Berlusconi

Prime Minister of Italy, 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011

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A media tycoon who dominated Italian politics for two decades while facing repeated trials and scandals.

Silvio Berlusconi 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 anti-establishment on institutions and leaning traditional on culture.

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Where Silvio Berlusconi 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
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Silvio Berlusconi

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Political views closest to Silvio Berlusconi

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.98%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…96%Right-wing populismCasts politics as ordinary people against elites, mixing nationalism, tradition and…91%BonapartismAuthoritarian rule by a popular leader who claims to embody the nation, with plebiscites…91%

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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: Silvio_Berlusconi_(2010).jpg : www.la-moncloa.es derivative work: Off2riorob ( talk ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.