Brazil · 2019–2023
Jair Bolsonaro
Right-wing populist. Gun rights, culture war, a light touch on Amazon enforcement, and military nostalgia.
Jair Bolsonaro is on the world-leaders chart for Brazil, 2019–2023. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Right-wing populist. Gun rights, culture war, a light touch on Amazon enforcement, and military nostalgia.
The dot is economics +46 and authority +54, 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: God, guns, a smaller state, and an end to the left’s cultural hold. Done: Gun rules loosened and the Amazon enforcement dropped. Pension reform was more orthodox than the rallies. He lost reelection. 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 Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore, +44 / +74). 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.