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Global Greens and Pinochet Regime

Measured distance across six axes

32.0 / 49.0 possible

Opposite ends of the recorded space. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, AU, ID, CH.

Axis by axis

AxisGlobal GreensPinochet RegimeGapReading
EC · Economic organisation−05+0914DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
CU · Social and cultural order−09+0817DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
AU · Organisation of power−06+1016DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
SC · Scale of decision 00+077DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
ID · Rule of membership−08+0513DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
CH · Method and tempo−04+048DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.

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.

Global Greens · EC −05

Coded −5: ecological regulation and public investment rather than public ownership.

  • Programme textThe 2001 Charter commits to markets constrained by ecological limits rather than to their abolition.

Pinochet Regime · EC +09

Among the deepest market liberalisations attempted anywhere, executed under a military government.

  • Documented act or statutePensions were transferred to private individual accounts in 1981.
  • Documented act or statuteState enterprises, health and schooling were privatised or voucherised through the late 1970s and 1980s.

Global Greens · CU −09

Coded −9: respect for diversity is one of the six founding principles.

  • Programme textThe Charter commits to gender equity, indigenous rights and cultural diversity as core rather than adjacent.

Pinochet Regime · CU +08

Social order restored by decree alongside the economic liberalisation.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 1980 constitution was drafted by an appointed commission and ratified under a state of siege with no electoral register.
  • Documented act or statuteAbortion, legal in some circumstances since 1931, was banned outright in 1989.

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.

Global Greens

2001– · Worldwide

Ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non-violence, sustainability, respect for diversity.

Pinochet Regime

1973–1990 · Chile

Free-market restructuring imposed by a military junta after the violent overthrow of an elected government.

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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