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Official State Department portrait of Hillary Clinton.

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Hillary Clinton

Country
United States
Era
b. 1947
Tradition
Liberal internationalism

Senator, Secretary of State and the first woman nominated for president by a major American party, whose politics combined domestic social liberalism with an interventionist foreign policy well to the hawkish side of her party.

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Documented positions

Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.

  • Led the failed 1993–94 attempt at universal health insurance, then helped create the Children’s Health Insurance Program
  • Voted to authorise the Iraq War in 2002 and later described the vote as a mistake
  • Advocated intervention in Libya as Secretary of State and supported arming Syrian opposition groups
  • Declared in Beijing in 1995 that "women’s rights are human rights", making it a plank of American diplomacy
  • Supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership as Secretary of State and opposed it as a presidential candidate
  • Campaigned on paid family leave, universal pre-kindergarten and a public option in health insurance
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Where it sits on each dimension

Wealth and inequality

40

Evidence: Documented

The state in the economy

48

Evidence: Documented

Personal liberty

58

Evidence: Documented

Tradition and change

82

Evidence: Well documented

Nation and the world

30

Evidence: Well documented

Power and its limits

74

Evidence: Documented

Environment and growth

66

Evidence: Documented

Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Religion and the state, Crime and punishment

Sources

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women · 1995
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hard Choices · 2014

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