Thinkers and political figures
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Country
- Ukraine
- Era
- b. 1978
- Tradition
- Civic nationalism, liberal democracy
President of Ukraine since 2019, elected on an anti-corruption platform and since 2022 leading the country’s defence against the Russian invasion while pursuing European Union accession.
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.
- Anti-corruption and judicial reform as the founding platform of the Servant of the People party
- Land market liberalisation in 2020, ending a long moratorium on farmland sales
- Application for European Union membership in 2022 and alignment with EU legal standards
- National defence and territorial integrity against invasion as the central commitment since 2022
- Martial law measures restricting some political and media activity during the war
02
Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
52
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Documented
The state in the economy
62
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Documented
Personal liberty
58
Collective orderIndividual freedom
Evidence: Thinly documented
Nation and the world
78
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Power and its limits
62
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Documented
Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Environment and growth, Crime and punishment, Religion and the state, Tradition and change
Sources
- Law on the circulation of agricultural land · Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine · 2020
- Application for membership of the European Union · 2022
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