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Political and country risk analystsFor political and country risk analysts
Your classification gets pushed back on because it is a label, and a label cannot be defended. Six measurements can.
Orbánism
Fidesz sits at +04 on economic organisation — to the right of most European social democracy — and at +07 on the organisation of power. A single label cannot carry both, which is why a client who disagrees with the label has nothing to argue with except you.
What tends to be the problem
- Three analyst-days to assemble what should take three hours
- Every analyst in the firm characterises differently, so notes are inconsistent across engagements
- Clients push back on a classification and there is nothing to point at
- The available sources are partisan, paywalled, or academic and two years stale
The free report
The Classification Problem in Country Risk
Why analyst notes get argued with, and what a coded position does that a label cannot.
- Why one label fails on six independent questions, with the four-corner demonstration
- The six axes, what each measures, and the anchor definitions that fix the scale
- Three worked positions: Fidesz, the AKP and Xi-era China, coded with the evidence
- How to build a consistent house vocabulary so two analysts reach the same coding
- What the instrument cannot do, stated plainly, so you are never caught out by it
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A complete positional analysis of a single party, movement or regime, including one not yet in the public atlas. Every score arrives with something a third party can check, and the subject is positioned against more than three hundred reference cases.