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Hashemite Monarchy
1946– · Jordan · Constitutional Monarchist · 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 monarchy that has survived by managing a population majority of Palestinian origin, regional wars and repeated refugee influxes.
Economic model
Aid-dependent, phosphates and services, IMF programmes, very high youth unemployment.
Organisation of powers
Elected parliament with an appointed senate and a monarch who appoints and dismisses governments.
Reading note
Hosts one of the largest refugee populations per head in the world, which is the central fact of its politics and rarely the reported one.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04
Coded +4: aid dependence, phosphates and services under IMF programmes.
- Comparative datasetExternal grants and remittances are a substantial share of GDP.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +07
Coded +7: tribal and Islamic social order with monarchical religious authority.
- Documented act or statutePersonal status law is confessional and the monarch claims descent from the Prophet.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +08
Coded +8: elected parliament, appointed senate, monarch appoints and dismisses governments.
- Documented act or statuteParliament was suspended entirely between 2001 and 2003.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +06
Coded +6: a centralised state with appointed governors.
- Documented act or statuteGovernorate administration is by royal appointment.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +06
Coded +6: a Transjordanian-Palestinian distinction that structures political rights.
- ScholarshipElectoral districting systematically over-represents rural Transjordanian areas.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −06
Coded −6: the monarchy's method is accommodation and survival.
- ScholarshipIt has survived three regional wars and multiple refugee influxes without changing form.
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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