Germany · 2005–2021
Angela Merkel
Christian Democrat who governed as a fiscal moderate and a social pragmatist, including on refugees.
Angela Merkel is on the world-leaders chart for Germany, 2005–2021. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Christian Democrat who governed as a fiscal moderate and a social pragmatist, including on refugees.
The dot is economics +18 and authority +4, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits near the middle. 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: No experiments. Fiscal caution and a managed center. Done: Governed that way, then opened the border in 2015 without a matching European deal. 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 Tony Blair (United Kingdom, +14 / +4) and Lech Wałęsa (Poland, +14 / +20). 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.