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Pinochet Regime and Institutional Revolutionary Party
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on AU, SC, ID. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Pinochet Regime | PRI | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +09 | +01 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +04 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +10 | +08 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +07 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +05 | +03 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +04 | −04 | 8 | 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.
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.
PRI · EC +01
Coded +1: the same party redistributed land, nationalised oil and then signed NAFTA and privatised.
- Documented act or statuteOil was nationalised in 1938; the banks were nationalised in 1982 and reprivatised from 1991.
- Documented act or statuteNAFTA entered force in 1994 under a PRI president.
Pinochet Regime · CH +04
Coded positive but below the interwar cases: a single seizure followed by seventeen years of institutionalised rule.
- Documented act or statutePower was taken by aerial bombardment of the presidential palace in September 1973.
- Documented act or statuteThe regime accepted the result of the 1988 plebiscite and left office in 1990, which holds the score down.
PRI · CH −04
Coded −4: built specifically to institutionalise a revolution and stop the coups that followed it.
- ScholarshipFounded in 1929 after the assassination of a president-elect, to route succession through a party rather than through the army.
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.
Pinochet Regime
1973–1990 · Chile
Free-market restructuring imposed by a military junta after the violent overthrow of an elected government.
Institutional Revolutionary Party
1929– · Mexico
A party built to institutionalise a revolution and end military coups, which then held the presidency for seventy-one consecutive years.
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