Ideological Vector Model (IVM): A Semantic-Based Approach to Quantitative Political Analysis

Ideological Vector Model (IVM) The model represents political figures as vectors in a 9-dimensional ideological space and measures proximity between them with a normalized Euclidean distance — the Semantic Distance Score (SDS). Actors Adolf Hitler, Alexei Navalny, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Benito Mussolini, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Claudia Sheinbaum, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Friedrich Merz, George W. Bush, Giorgia Meloni, Jair Bolsonaro, Joe Biden, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, Justin Trudeau, Keir Starmer, Lula da Silva, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Carney, Martin Luther King Jr., Narendra Modi, Nelson Mandela, Prabowo Subianto, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Shehbaz Sharif, Shigeru Ishiba, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Winston Churchill, Xi Jinping. Axis scores were assigned through manual expert evaluation (see Section 2.3 of the paper) and should be read as a proof-of-concept dataset, not a validated measurement instrument. On authorship "Olesya Kimook" is a pen name. The author has deliberately chosen anonymity for personal reasons and does not disclose their real identity.All communication regarding the IVM article — press, questions, proposals — goes through a single channel: [email protected]