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Titoism
Workers' self-management · 1948–1980 · Yugoslavia · Communist · 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 socialism independent of Moscow, built on enterprise self-management and a federation of nations.
Economic model
Socially owned firms run by elected workers' councils competing in a market; no central plan after 1965.
Organisation of powers
Single party and a lifetime president, but genuine federal devolution and open borders.
Reading note
The clearest empirical test of market socialism, and evidence that economic decentralisation can coexist with political monopoly.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −08
Coded −8: socially owned firms run by elected workers' councils competing in a market.
- Programme textThe 1950 law on workers' self-management transferred enterprise governance to elected councils.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −02
Coded −2: secular and modernising with a conservative rural society.
- Documented act or statuteAbortion was legalised early and constitutionalised as a right in 1974.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +07
Coded +7: a single party and a lifetime president, with open borders and no bloc discipline.
- Documented act or statuteTito was named president for life in 1974; Yugoslavs could travel and work abroad freely.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +02
Coded +2: a genuinely federal state with republics holding substantial power after 1974.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1974 constitution devolved extensive authority to republics and autonomous provinces.
ID · Rule of membership · scored 00
Coded at zero: brotherhood and unity as an explicit supra-ethnic doctrine.
- Documented act or statuteYugoslav nationality was available as a census category and ethnic quotas balanced federal appointments.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +05
Coded +5: founded in partisan war and sustained by a single party.
- Documented act or statutePower was won through armed resistance between 1941 and 1945 without Soviet occupation.
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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