Japan · 2006–07, 2012–20
Shinzo Abe
Liberal Democratic conservative. Monetary stimulus, a stronger military posture, and a traditionalist streak.
Shinzo Abe is on the world-leaders chart for Japan, 2006–07, 2012–20. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Liberal Democratic conservative. Monetary stimulus, a stronger military posture, and a traditionalist streak.
The dot is economics +38 and authority +34, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: End deflation, revise the pacifist reading of the constitution, and stand up to China. Done: The monetary stimulus happened. The constitutional rewrite did not. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Narendra Modi (India, +36 / +50) and Konrad Adenauer (West Germany, +22 / +30). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Two governments can share a number and share nothing else. The source is the public governing record, not a news write-up and not a campaign advertisement.