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Bolsonarismo

2018– · Brazil · National Populist · Movement · coding confidence medium

+06ECmarket
+09CUtraditional
+06AUmonist
+03SCcentral
+04IDascriptive
+01CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Order, God, family, guns, and hostility to the left and to the press.

Economic model

Privatisation, pension reform, deregulation of environmental protection and firearms.

Organisation of powers

Elected; conceded the 2022 result only after supporters stormed the capital, and its leader was subsequently barred from office.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +06

Coded +6: privatisation, pension reform and deregulation.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 2019 pension reform raised retirement ages; environmental enforcement was cut sharply.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +09

Coded +9: order, God, family and guns.

  • Documented act or statuteFirearms decrees expanded civilian ownership; gender content was removed from curricula.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +06

Coded +6: elected, and conceding the result only after the capital was stormed.

  • Documented act or statuteSupporters stormed the congress, supreme court and presidential palace on 8 January 2023.
  • Documented act or statuteThe electoral court barred the former president from office until 2030.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +03

Coded +3: federal against state governments during the pandemic.

  • Documented act or statuteThe supreme court affirmed state authority over pandemic measures against federal objection.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded +4 after the v2.2 review: civic jus soli citizenship unchallenged.

  • ScholarshipThe exclusions practised were political and against indigenous land claims, recorded on other axes.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +01

Coded +1: electoral, with the military repeatedly invoked.

  • Documented act or statuteMilitary police and armed forces were publicly courted throughout the term.

Scores that have been revised

ID +07 → +04Brazilian membership is civic and jus soli, and was not challenged. The exclusion the movement practised was of political opponents and of indigenous land claims, which the culture and authority axes already record.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Brazil

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Bolsonarismo. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/bolsonarismo/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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