Atlas / Organisations / Jamahiriya
Jamahiriya
Gaddafi's Libya · 1969–2011 · Libya · Idiosyncratic Authoritarian · Held state power · coding confidence medium
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
A declared state of the masses with no parties, no constitution and, formally, no head of state, governed entirely by one man.
Economic model
Oil nationalised, private retail abolished in 1979, housing redistributed, later partial reopening to foreign investment.
Organisation of powers
People's congresses and committees replacing government, alongside revolutionary committees that carried out killings and disappearances.
Reading note
The Green Book rejected representative democracy and the party system as such. A genuinely unusual coordinate that fits no standard family.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −07
Coded −7: oil nationalised and private retail abolished outright.
- Documented act or statutePrivate retail trade was abolished in 1979 and replaced with state supermarkets.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +07
Coded +7: a revolutionary moral order with tribal accommodation beneath it.
- Programme textThe Green Book rejected both capitalist and communist models in favour of a third universal theory.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +10
At the ceiling: no parties, no constitution and formally no head of state.
- Documented act or statutePolitical parties were criminalised in 1972 with a penalty of death.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +07
Coded +7: people's congresses nominally sovereign and centrally directed in fact.
- Documented act or statuteRevolutionary committees, answerable only to the leader, supervised the congresses.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +06
Coded +6: Arab nationalism above Berber identity, later a pan-African turn.
- Documented act or statuteAmazigh language and names were banned; the regime later styled itself King of Kings of Africa.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +06
Coded +6: power taken by coup and a permanent revolutionary posture maintained.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1969 coup was bloodless; the revolutionary committees conducted public hangings from 1980.
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.
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