IDEOLOGY PROFILE / CONSERVATISM

Distributism.

Seeks widely dispersed productive property, small enterprises, and cooperative institutions rather than concentrated corporate or state ownership.

ConservatismSocialism

AT A GLANCE

Defining principles

01Broad distribution of ownership

02Small-scale economic institutions

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THE PROFILE

How this tradition is modeled

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You Distributism

Political economy

Private property73

Market exchange73

Economic planning15

Redistribution73

Worker control78

State ownership8

Institutions

Centralization13

Local autonomy95

Culture & change

Religion in government75

Cultural traditionalism78

Scale: 0–100 within each dimension. Bars show relative positioning, not strength of conviction. Unanswered dimensions are omitted.

YOUR PROFILE

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THE DISTINCTIONS

Compare with another ideology

Distributismvs.

Draws on Christian social thought to support human dignity, family and community institutions, subsidiarity, and a social market economy.

Centralization

Distributism 13Christian Democracy 33

Local autonomy

Distributism 95Christian Democracy 83

Private property

Distributism 73Christian Democracy 80

Redistribution

Distributism 73Christian Democracy 78

Religion in government

Distributism 75Christian Democracy 78

Numbers indicate model positions on a 0–100 scale, not a moral ranking or measure of certainty.