Singapore · 1959–1990
Lee Kuan Yew
State-guided capitalism, clean administration, and tight limits on press, protest, and vice.
Lee Kuan Yew is on the world-leaders chart for Singapore, 1959–1990. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: State-guided capitalism, clean administration, and tight limits on press, protest, and vice.
The dot is economics +44 and authority +74, 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: Survival, then a first-world city, with order ahead of a Western opposition. Done: Growth, public housing, and defamation suits and detention that kept rivals small. 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 Deng Xiaoping (China, +26 / +76) and Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil, +46 / +54). 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.