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Nepali Maoists
CPN (Maoist Centre) · 1994– · Nepal · Communist · Electoral party · 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
An insurgency that abolished a monarchy, then entered parliamentary politics and governed in coalition with its former enemies.
Economic model
Land reform commitments largely unrealised, remittance dependence, hydropower development.
Organisation of powers
Federal republic established in 2008 with a constitution written by an elected assembly; governments alternate constantly.
Reading note
A ten-year war killing around 17,000 people, ended by a negotiated settlement in which the insurgents disarmed and won an election.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −06
Coded −6: land reform commitments largely unrealised.
- Documented act or statuteLand redistribution promised in the peace process has been repeatedly deferred.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −03
Coded −3: caste and gender equality provisions written into the constitution.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2015 constitution reserves seats and prohibits caste discrimination.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +01
Coded +1: entered constitutional politics and has both governed and lost.
- Documented act or statuteThe party won the 2008 constituent assembly election, then lost the 2013 one and accepted the result.
SC · Scale of decision · scored −03
Coded −3: federalism as a central demand of the settlement.
- Programme textThe 2015 constitution established seven federal provinces, a core insurgent demand.
ID · Rule of membership · scored 00
Coded at zero: federalism organised partly on ethnic lines and contested.
- Documented act or statuteMadhesi protests against the 2015 provincial boundaries left over fifty dead.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −01
Coded −1: an insurgency that disarmed and won an election.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2006 comprehensive peace accord ended a war of around 17,000 deaths; combatants were cantoned and partly integrated into the army.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromMaoism
Fought a ten-year people's war on the Maoist model and then entered parliamentary politics.
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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