Is Fujimorism left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Fujimorism scores +08 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +07. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Fujimorism authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Fujimorism scores +08. 1992 self-coup, intelligence-service control of media and courts, forced sterilisation programme, later imprisonment for corruption and killings.

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Fujimorism

1990– · Peru · Neoliberal Authoritarian · Held state power · coding confidence medium

+08ECmarket

+07CUtraditional

+08AUmonist

+06SCcentral

+04IDascriptive

+03CHcoercive

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

Market shock therapy and counter-insurgency delivered by a president who closed his own congress and rewrote the constitution.

Economic model

Privatisation, capital account opening, hyperinflation ended, poverty initially deepened then reduced.

Organisation of powers

1992 self-coup, intelligence-service control of media and courts, forced sterilisation programme, later imprisonment for corruption and killings.

Reading note

The Latin American case that most closely parallels Chile in pairing economic liberalisation with the suspension of constitutional government.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +08

Coded +8: shock liberalisation and privatisation.

Documented act or statuteHyperinflation of over 7,000% in 1990 was ended by a stabilisation programme; most state firms were sold by 1997.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +07

Coded +7: authoritarian social order and Catholic personal law.

Documented act or statuteAbortion remains criminalised except to save the mother's life.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +08

At the ceiling for an elected government: the president closed his own congress.

Documented act or statuteThe April 1992 autogolpe dissolved congress and the judiciary; a new constitution followed in 1993.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +06

Coded +6: recentralisation of regional government during the counter-insurgency.

Documented act or statuteRegional governments were replaced by appointed transitional councils after 1992.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded +4: a forced sterilisation programme targeting indigenous rural women.

Documented act or statuteOver 270,000 sterilisations were performed between 1996 and 2000, a large share without valid consent.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +03

Coded +3: elected, then governing by decree under a counter-insurgency emergency.

Documented act or statuteThe Colina death squad operated from within the intelligence service; its massacres led to a 25-year sentence in 2009.

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

Peru

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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). Fujimorism. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/fujimorism/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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