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Leslie Knope (Liberal)
Government can do good
Optimistic, institution-loving liberalism.
Economic−20
SocialistMarket
Governance+0
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+66
TraditionalProgressive
The boundlessly optimistic civil servant whose faith that government, done well, improves lives makes her fiction's purest avatar of modern public-spirited liberalism.
social
Enthusiastically progressive and feminist.
economic
Believes in well-funded public goods within a market economy.
governance
Reveres democratic process, committees and civic duty.
Notable for
- Turned a pit into a park
- Devotion to public service
- Icon of earnest liberalism
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