POLITICS
Who runs the world, and how they got there.
Elections and the forecasts for the next ones, the people who hold office, the hundred most powerful people alive, the constitutions that bind rulers, the alliances and wars between states, and the Order layer that reads every state on what it can do and what constrains it.
The Power Atlas
A single index of national power, computed for every state from 1500 to today and ranked against its contemporaries. Slide through five centuries and watch empires rise and fall.
Open the atlasElections & leaders
Who gets the job
Every vote, the forecasts for the next ones, and the people who hold office now.
Elections
Every election in dozens of democracies and the EU, since the 1800s
Election Forecasts
The next votes forecast: polling averages and seat ranges
World Leaders
Every head of state and government, back to antiquity
US Political Leadership
The executive, Congress, the Supreme Court and the fifty governors
UK Political Leadership
The Crown, the Prime Minister, Parliament and the devolved nations
Mayors of the World
Who runs the primary city of each of the top 100 metros
Who Outlasts Whom
Which outlives which: leaders or the constitutions they served under
Power & institutions
Who holds power, and what binds it
The most powerful people alive, national power across five centuries, the documents that constrain rulers, and the alliances and wars between states.
The Nowhere 100
The hundred most powerful people alive, on one scale
The Power Atlas
National power ranked year by year, from 1500 to today
The World's Constitutions
When each constitution was written and how often it is amended
Alliances & Orgs
NATO, the UN, the EU and the blocs that bind states together
Wars since 1500
Five centuries of war between states, belligerents linked
The Order layer
How the world is ordered
Every state read on what it can do, what binds it, and which way it is moving.
The Order layer
The instruments of political order, state by state
The Order Grid
Every state on two axes: force and the law that binds the ruler
Direction of Travel
Who is moving toward the ideal and who is moving away
The Recognition Gap
What a country weighs against what it is treated as weighing
The Spectrum
Every executive and legislature on one left-to-right scale