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Botswana Democratic Party and Mauritian Democracy
Measured distance across six axes
Effectively the same position. They agree within three points on EC, CU, AU, SC, ID, CH. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | BDP | Mauritian Democracy | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | +03 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +04 | +02 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | −03 | −05 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +03 | +02 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | +02 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −08 | −08 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
BDP · CU +04
Coded +4: socially conservative with a strong constitutional court.
- Documented act or statuteThe high court decriminalised same-sex relations in 2019 and the ruling was upheld on appeal in 2021.
Mauritian Democracy · CU +02
Coded +2: multi-religious accommodation with conservative personal law.
- Documented act or statuteSame-sex relations were decriminalised by the supreme court in 2023.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Botswana Democratic Party
1962– · Botswana
Cautious fiscal management of diamond revenue within a continuously functioning multi-party democracy.
Mauritian Democracy
1968– · Mauritius
A multi-ethnic island democracy with continuous competitive elections, high growth and a comprehensive welfare state.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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