Atlas / Comparisons / Nordic Social Democracy vs Peronism
Nordic Social Democracy and Peronism
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on EC. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, AU, ID, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Folkhemmet | Justicialism | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −05 | −05 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | −06 | +03 | 9 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | −06 | +06 | 12 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +02 | +06 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | −04 | +04 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −08 | +01 | 9 | Diverges | Carries 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.
Folkhemmet · CU −06
Among the most liberal social legislation in the world, adopted early and by consensus.
- Documented act or statuteSweden legalised same-sex partnership in 1995 and marriage in 2009; Denmark was first in the world in 1989.
- Documented act or statuteIndividual taxation, universal childcare and parental leave quotas designed around dual-earner households.
Justicialism · CU +03
Coded mildly traditional: women's suffrage and social rights alongside a Catholic corporatist frame.
- Documented act or statuteWomen received the vote in 1947 and a women's branch of the party was created.
- Documented act or statuteDivorce was legalised in 1954 during the conflict with the church and repealed after the 1955 coup.
Folkhemmet · AU −06
Strongly dispersed authority: proportional representation, coalition norms, and institutionalised bargaining with organised interests.
- Documented act or statuteGovernment formation has required multi-party coalition or confidence agreement in almost every postwar parliament.
- Documented act or statuteWage-setting is conducted by employer and union federations rather than by statute.
Justicialism · AU +06
Coded +6: elected, and hostile to the institutions that could check it.
- Documented act or statuteThe supreme court was impeached and replaced in 1947; the main opposition newspaper was expropriated in 1951.
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.
Nordic Social Democracy
1932– · Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Universal welfare, full employment and centralised wage bargaining, inside a market economy and a liberal constitution.
Peronism
1946– · Argentina
Social justice, economic independence and political sovereignty, delivered by a leader speaking directly for the shirtless masses.
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