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Worldview Clusters
Left / Egalitarian TraditionsTraditions that emphasize equality, labor, redistribution, social justice, democratic participation, and shared power.Liberal / Individualist TraditionsTraditions that emphasize individual rights, liberty, constitutional limits, consent, markets or civil freedoms, with major differences between classical, social, and progressive forms.Right / Conservative / Traditionalist TraditionsTraditions that emphasize continuity, inherited institutions, social order, hierarchy, markets, national identity, or tradition, depending on the branch.Democratic / Civic / Republican TraditionsTraditions that emphasize popular sovereignty, citizenship, constitutionalism, civic participation, public reason, and self-government.Nationalist / Sovereigntist / Communitarian TraditionsTraditions that emphasize nationhood, peoplehood, sovereignty, shared identity, political independence, territorial belonging, or community obligation.Libertarian / Anti-State TraditionsTraditions that emphasize individual or community autonomy, skepticism of centralized state power, voluntary association, decentralization, or anti-authoritarian politics.Authoritarian / Statist / Order-First TraditionsTraditions or regime orientations that emphasize centralized authority, state power, discipline, order, hierarchy, or limited political pluralism.Religious / Theocratic TraditionsTraditions that connect political authority, law, ethics, public life, or social order to religious belief, institutions, texts, or communities.Ecological / Post-Material TraditionsTraditions that emphasize environmental limits, sustainability, quality of life, ecological ethics, future generations, and post-material political values.Populist / Anti-Elite TraditionsTraditions, styles, and movements that frame politics as a conflict between ordinary people and corrupt, distant, or illegitimate elites.Technocratic / Managerial TraditionsTraditions that emphasize expert administration, scientific management, planning, state capacity, institutional competence, and evidence-driven governance.Liberation / Identity / Anti-Colonial TraditionsTraditions that emphasize emancipation, anti-colonial self-rule, civil rights, group recognition, decolonization, equal citizenship, and liberation from domination.