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Institutional Revolutionary Party and UK Conservative Party
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, ID, CH. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | PRI | Tories | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +01 | +06 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +04 | +05 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | +02 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | +03 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −04 | −05 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
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.
PRI · AU +08
Coded +8: elections held without interruption and never lost for seventy-one years.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1988 result was declared after a computer failure that destroyed the ballots, later admitted by the incumbent president.
- Documented act or statuteThe party lost the presidency in 2000 and conceded, which is why this is not higher.
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.
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.
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.
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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