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Pinochet Regime and UK Conservative Party
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on EC, CU, ID. They diverge by eight points or more on AU, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Pinochet Regime | Tories | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +09 | +06 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +05 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +10 | +02 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| 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 | −05 | 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.
Pinochet Regime · AU +10
At the ceiling. Congress dissolved, parties banned, opposition disappeared.
- Documented act or statuteCongress was dissolved and parties banned by decree after the September 1973 coup.
- Documented act or statuteThe Rettig and Valech commissions documented over three thousand killed or disappeared and tens of thousands tortured.
Tories · AU +02
Coded +2: parliamentary in method, with several recent confrontations with legal constraint.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2019 prorogation of parliament was ruled unlawful by the supreme court.
- Documented act or statuteJudicial review was narrowed and legislation was introduced to disapply parts of human rights law in specific policy areas.
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.
Tories · CH −05
Coded −5: incremental by disposition, with Brexit as a deliberate discontinuity achieved by referendum.
- Documented act or statuteEU withdrawal was pursued through referendum, legislation and treaty rather than outside them.
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.
UK Conservative Party
1834– · Britain
Fiscal restraint, national sovereignty, property ownership, controlled migration, gradualism.
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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