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Bharatiya Janata Party and National Rally
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, AU, ID, CH. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | BJP | RN, Front National | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | −01 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +08 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +06 | +04 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +08 | +07 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −02 | −01 | 1 | 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.
BJP · EC +04
Pulled right by privatisation and production subsidies, pulled left by the largest in-kind welfare programme in the world. Net mildly market.
- Documented act or statuteFree food grain provided to roughly 800 million people since 2020.
- Documented act or statuteAir India, and stakes in state banking and insurance, sold or listed since 2019.
RN, Front National · EC −01
Moved from a market position in the 1980s to a protectionist and pro-welfare position, which is why it now sits near the centre.
- Programme textOpposition to raising the pension age and support for price controls on energy and food staples.
- Comparative datasetCHES records a substantial leftward movement in radical right economic positioning across recent waves.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980– · India
Hindu cultural nationalism, national security, welfare delivery, and infrastructure-led development.
National Rally
1972– · France
National priority for French citizens, sharp restriction of immigration, sovereignty against the EU, protection of purchasing power.
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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