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Yoweri Museveni

President of Uganda, 1986 to present

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A former rebel leader who has ruled Uganda since 1986, credited with stability and economic growth and criticized for repression of opponents and for signing an anti-LGBT law in 2023.

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

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

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People furthest from Yoweri Museveni

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Political views closest to Yoweri Museveni

MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.97%GaullismA French tradition of national independence, a strong presidency and a leading role for…96%IslamismA broad family of movements that seek to organize politics and law around Islam, from…96%Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.95%

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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: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.