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Bukelismo and Neoliberalism
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on AU.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Nuevas Ideas | Mont Pèlerin, Chicago | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +05 | +09 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +06 | +01 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | −02 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +06 | +02 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | −02 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +02 | −02 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
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.
Nuevas Ideas · AU +08
Elected with very high approval, and the constraints on the office removed one by one.
- Documented act or statuteThe legislature removed the constitutional chamber judges and the attorney general in May 2021.
- Documented act or statuteThe reconstituted court then permitted consecutive re-election despite an explicit constitutional prohibition.
Mont Pèlerin, Chicago · AU −02
Coded slightly negative: the doctrine constrains majorities through rules and independent bodies, which disperses rather than concentrates authority.
- ScholarshipCentral bank independence, fiscal rules and treaty commitments remove decisions from ordinary majority revision.
- ScholarshipThis is delegation, not concentration; the entry for technocratic centrism is coded positive on the same reasoning and separates the two.
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.
Bukelismo
2019– · El Salvador
Mass incarceration of suspected gang members under a permanent state of exception, sold as the trade of civil liberties for physical safety.
Neoliberalism
1947– · International
Market competition as the organising principle of policy, insulated from democratic interference by rules and independent institutions.
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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