Thinkers and political figures
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Juan Perón
- Country
- Argentina
- Era
- 1895–1974
- Tradition
- Peronism, corporatist populism
Argentine officer who built a movement out of organised labour that still dominates the country’s politics, combining large gains for workers with an intolerance of opposition that neither left nor right categories capture.
01
Documented positions
Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.
- Extended labour rights massively: paid holidays, collective bargaining, severance protection and a large real wage increase
- Nationalised the railways, telephones, gas and the central bank, and built state-led industrial substitution
- Granted women the vote in 1947 and built a women’s branch of the party led by Eva Perón
- Declared a "third position" between capitalism and communism, aligning with neither Cold War bloc
- Closed opposition newspapers, imprisoned critics and purged the universities and judiciary
- Organised society into state-recognised corporate bodies of labour, business and the military
- Returned from eighteen years of exile to win the presidency again in 1973
02
Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
22
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Well documented
The state in the economy
20
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Well documented
Personal liberty
18
Collective orderIndividual freedom
Evidence: Well documented
Tradition and change
55
ContinuityReform
Evidence: Documented
Nation and the world
88
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Religion and the state
55
Secular stateReligion in public life
Evidence: Documented
Power and its limits
18
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Well documented
Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Environment and growth, Crime and punishment
Sources
- Juan Perón, Peronist Doctrine · 1952
- Daniel James, Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class · Cambridge University Press · 1988
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