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Austrian-American actor and bodybuilder who served as Republican governor of California (2003–2011). He signed the AB 32 climate law and backed independent redistricting; in 2025 he criticized Trump and opposed Proposition 50.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger leans further toward federal than 77% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Arnold Schwarzenegger stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Arnold Schwarzenegger sits practically at the catalog median.
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Liberalism that defends democracy, individual rights and a market economy, but tests each policy against evidence: it accepts regulation, a safety net and targeted intervention when they fix market failures, as in Clinton's Third Way.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
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Juche SocialismRadical Left32%
German-British liberal sociologist, author of Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. He was an FDP member of the Bundestag, European commissioner, director of the London School of Economics and a peer; he stressed liberty and "life chances".
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A supranational political and economic union, the European Union integrates democratic states through shared institutions, a common market, coordinated regulation, free movement, and a strong commitment to rights, secularism, and international cooperation.
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Post-apartheid transition under Nelson Mandela: first multiracial elections, a government of national unity, the 1996 Constitution, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and moderately liberal economic policy.
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