France · 1799–1815
Napoleon Bonaparte
Consolidated the revolution’s legal equality and property rights under a personal empire.
Napoleon Bonaparte is on the world-leaders chart for France, 1799–1815. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Consolidated the revolution’s legal equality and property rights under a personal empire.
The dot is economics +10 and authority +70, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is near the middle 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: The revolution’s equality, saved from the chaos of the assemblies. Done: A legal code and careers open to talent, under an emperor and a police ministry. 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 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey, +8 / +68) and Viktor Orbán (Hungary, +18 / +64). 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.