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الاجتماعي

Personal and moral social freedom — lifestyle, LGBTQ+ rights, individual expression, religion-in-private — permissive (+) vs traditional collective moral authority (−). This axis is about SOCIAL / MORAL liberty, NOT security policy, nationalism, or economics: a party can be nationalist-hawkish yet socially permissive (secular nationalists), or dovish yet socially conservative.

Scoring rubric

How positions are calibrated on this axis. The conventions guide the scorer; anchored examples show how known MENA actors land at -10, -5, 0, +5, +10.

Score the actor on the degree to which it favors individual autonomy (high positive) versus collective authority and tradition (high negative). Captures stance on personal-life regulation (dress, lifestyle, gender norms), tolerance for dissent, and the role of family and community structures over individual rights. Not the same as state-religion: an actor can favor strong civic-secular authority (authoritarian-secular) and be highly authority-leaning.

  • -10
    Total collective authority over the individual
    Houthis on personal-life regulation
  • -7
    Strong authority, religious or nationalist
    UTJ, Religious Zionism, Al-Asalah
  • -3
    Moderate authority-leaning
    FLN Algeria, Mostaqbal Watan
  • +0
    Balanced civic frame
    Istiqlal Party, Tagammu
  • +3
    Liberal-leaning, defends personal autonomy
    Hadash, FFS
  • +7
    Strong libertarian framing
    The Democrats Israel, Egyptian SDP
  • +10
    Maximal individual autonomy
    No clear MENA exemplar at the pole
Parties scored
80
Mean
-1.45
Median
-2.00
Std dev
5.32
Range
-9.0 → 8.0

Ranking

All parties scored on this axis, sorted from most Libertarian to most Authority.

Authority ← → Libertarian

-10-5+0+5+10
  1. 1 The Democrats IL
    +8.0
  2. 2 Yesh Atid IL
    +7.0
  3. 3 Hadash IL
    +6.5
  4. 4 Sudanese Communist Party SD
    +6.0
  5. 5 Hadash-Ta'al IL
    +6.0
  6. 6 Israeli Labor Party IL
    +5.8
  7. 7 Free Egyptians Party EG
    +5.5
  8. 8 Jordanian Communist Party JO
    +5.5
  9. 9 Tunisian Workers Party TN
    +5.0
  10. 10 Yemeni Socialist Party YE
    +5.0
  11. 11 Balad IL
    +5.0
  12. 12 Egyptian Social Democratic Party EG
    +5.0
  13. 13 Palestinian People's Party PS
    +5.0
  14. 14 Mubadara PS
    +4.5
  15. 15 DFLP PS
    +4.5
  16. 16 Socialist Forces Front DZ
    +4.0
  17. 17 Socialist Union of Popular Forces MA
    +4.0
  18. 18 Yisrael Beiteinu IL
    +4.0
  19. 19 Ta'al IL
    +4.0
  20. 20 National Unity IL
    +4.0
  21. 21 Authenticity and Modernity Party MA
    +4.0
  22. 22 Long Live Tunisia TN
    +4.0
  23. 23 PFLP PS
    +4.0
  24. 24 Tagammu Party EG
    +4.0
  25. 25 Union of Forces of Progress MR
    +4.0
  26. 26 Progressive Socialist Party LB
    +4.0
  27. 27 Workers' Party DZ
    +3.5
  28. 28 New Wafd Party EG
    +3.0
  29. 29 National Rally of Independents MA
    +3.0
  30. 30 National Forces Alliance LY
    +3.0
  31. 31 Syrian National Coalition SY
    +1.0
  32. 32 People's Movement TN
    +1.0
  33. 33 Ba'ath Party (Syria) SY
    -0.5
  34. 34 Lebanese Forces LB
    -1.0
  35. 35 Free Destourian Party TN
    -1.0
  36. 36 Fatah PS
    -1.5
  37. 37 Kataeb Party LB
    -1.5
  38. 38 Southern Transitional Council YE
    -2.0
  39. 39 Free Patriotic Movement LB
    -2.0
  40. 40 Likud IL
    -2.0
  41. 41 Reform Party JO
    -2.0
  42. 42 Patriotic Union of Kurdistan IQ
    -2.0
  43. 43 National Umma Party SD
    -3.0
  44. 44 Kurdistan Democratic Party IQ
    -3.0
  45. 45 National Liberation Front DZ
    -3.0
  46. 46 National Charter Party JO
    -3.0
  47. 47 Democratic Unionist Party SD
    -4.0
  48. 48 Istiqlal Party MA
    -4.0
  49. 49 National Wisdom Movement IQ
    -4.0
  50. 50 Mostaqbal Watan EG
    -4.0
  51. 51 Democratic National Rally DZ
    -4.0
  52. 52 General People's Congress YE
    -4.0
  53. 53 Ennahda TN
    -5.0
  54. 54 Amal Movement LB
    -6.0
  55. 55 El Insaf (Equity Party) MR
    -6.0
  56. 56 Justice and Development Party MA
    -6.0
  57. 57 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society BH
    -6.0
  58. 58 State of Law Coalition IQ
    -6.0
  59. 59 Sairoon Alliance IQ
    -6.0
  60. 60 Ra'am (United Arab List) IL
    -6.0
  61. 61 Justice and Construction Party LY
    -6.5
  62. 62 Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) YE
    -7.0
  63. 63 Movement of Society for Peace DZ
    -7.0
  64. 64 Northern Islamic Movement IL
    -7.0
  65. 65 Freedom and Justice Party EG
    -7.5
  66. 66 Al-Menbar Islamic Society BH
    -7.5
  67. 67 Religious Zionism Party IL
    -8.0
  68. 68 Ansar Allah (Houthis) YE
    -8.0
  69. 69 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham SY
    -8.0
  70. 70 Hamas PS
    -8.0
  71. 71 National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) MR
    -8.0
  72. 72 Otzma Yehudit IL
    -8.0
  73. 73 Islamic Action Front JO
    -8.0
  74. 74 Hezbollah LB
    -8.0
  75. 75 Shas IL
    -8.5
  76. 76 Islamic Salvation Front DZ
    -9.0
  77. 77 Palestinian Islamic Jihad PS
    -9.0
  78. 78 Nour Party EG
    -9.0
  79. 79 Islamic Asalah Society BH
    -9.0
  80. 80 United Torah Judaism IL
    -9.0

Score distribution

Histogram of scores across all 80 parties. Mean -1.45, median -2.00, σ 5.32. Multi-modal distributions point to genuine cleavages on this axis; unimodal narrow ones to consensus.

-9: 5 parties -8: 9 parties 9 -7: 5 parties -6: 8 parties 8 -5: 1 party -4: 6 parties 6 -3: 4 parties -2: 5 parties -1: 4 parties +0: 1 party +1: 2 parties +3: 3 parties +4: 12 parties 12 +5: 7 parties 7 +6: 5 parties +7: 2 parties +8: 1 party −10 0 +10

Authority Libertarian

By country

Mean score per country.

  • Tunisia 5 parties
    +0.80
  • Morocco 5 parties
    +0.20
  • Israel 16 parties
    +0.11
  • Palestine 7 parties
    -0.07
  • Sudan 3 parties
    -0.33
  • Egypt 7 parties
    -0.43
  • Libya 2 parties
    -1.75
  • Jordan 4 parties
    -1.88
  • Lebanon 6 parties
    -2.42
  • Syria 3 parties
    -2.50
  • Algeria 6 parties
    -2.58
  • Yemen 5 parties
    -3.20
  • Mauritania 3 parties
    -3.33
  • Iraq 5 parties
    -4.20
  • Bahrain 3 parties
    -7.50

Cross-axis correlations

How parties' scores on this axis covary with their scores on each other axis. Pearson r runs from −1 (perfect inverse) to +1 (perfect identity); 0 means independent. Computed across all parties scored on both axes (n shown per row). Strong correlations expose which axes are really measuring the same cleavage in the data; near-zero values are the ones with the most additional explanatory power.

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