DeepTunisia
Rankings

Six separate structural indices with reader-adjustable weights. Deliberately no single power score. Six indices, computed separately. There is deliberately no single power score: the columns measure different things and disagree with each other, which is the finding rather than a defect.

What the six columns measure

Formal authority

The constitutional and command weight of the most senior post held.

From a published, editable weight table. An editorial judgement, openly stated.

Proximity to the executive

How few institutional steps separate this person from the presidency.

Computed: shortest path to the presidency node over documented edges only.

Tenure and survival

Years in senior post, weighted by how many regime ruptures were survived in office.

Computed purely from position intervals. The most defensible index here.

Brokerage

How much this person connects parts of the network that would otherwise be separate.

Computed: normalised betweenness centrality. Surfaces intermediaries over headline names.

Cross-layer reach

How many of the analytical layers — security, political, economic, media, judicial, civil society, foreign — the person operates in.

Computed from layer membership, as a share of the layers currently enabled. Narrowing the layer filter changes the denominator.

Evidenced influence

How many evidenced routes of influence connect to this person, weighted by strength and basis.

Computed from documented influence edges in the graph. Reads: how many evidenced routes. Not a judgement of who truly runs the country.

#PersonMost senior post held
1 3L President of the Republic 100 100 100 64 43 0 68
2 2L Head of Government 70 72 92 4 29 0 44
3 3L Minister of Foreign Affairs 50 72 100 0 43 0 44
4 2L Director-General of Military Security 66 44 100 0 29 0 40
5 Minister of Education 45 72 100 0 14 0 38
6 Speaker of Parliament 55 44 100 16 14 0 38
7 Minister of Communication Technologies 35 72 100 6 14 0 38
8 2L Minister of the Interior 75 72 48 0 29 0 37
9 Minister of Communication 40 72 97 0 14 0 37
10 Minister of Transport 35 72 100 0 14 0 37
11 Director-General of Presidential Security 52 72 76 6 14 0 37
12 Chairman, Poulina Group Holding 30 72 100 4 14 0 37
13 2L Minister of Finance 45 44 95 0 29 0 35
14 Governor of Mahdia 30 72 91 0 14 0 35
15 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 25 14 0 34
16 Minister of Social Affairs 40 72 38 27 14 0 32
17 Principal, Mabrouk Group 30 44 100 2 14 0 32
18 Chief of Staff of the Navy 55 16 100 0 14 0 31
19 Minister of Social Affairs 40 72 57 0 14 0 31
20 Minister of Economy and Planning 45 72 52 0 14 0 31
21 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 0 14 0 30
22 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 0 14 0 30
23 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 0 14 0 30
24 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 0 14 0 30
25 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 100 0 14 0 30
26 President of Ennahda 45 16 100 1 14 0 29
27 Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research 40 72 48 0 14 0 29
28 Member of the Chamber of Deputies (12th legislature) 20 44 92 0 14 0 28
29 Governor of Ben Arous 30 72 52 0 14 0 28
30 2L President of UTICA 45 0 94 0 29 0 28
31 3L Owner, Nessma TV 24 0 100 0 43 0 28
32 Minister of Development and Regional Planning 40 72 39 0 14 0 28
33 2L Leader of the Progressive Democratic Party 32 0 100 0 29 0 27
34 Minister of Justice 42 72 32 0 14 0 27
35 Governor of Bizerte 30 72 42 0 14 0 26
36 2L Owner of Mosaique FM 30 0 100 0 29 0 26
37 Governor of Tunis 30 72 42 0 14 0 26
38 Minister of Health 38 44 61 0 14 0 26
39 2L Chief of Staff of the Land Army 60 16 52 0 29 0 26
40 Governor of Nabeul 30 72 40 0 14 0 26

This is a ranking of structural position, not of who secretly runs the country. A high brokerage score means the dataset records this person connecting otherwise separate networks; it is not evidence of wrongdoing, coordination, or hidden control. Select a row to see exactly which records produced each number.

How the rankings depend on assumptions

The six indices barely move when the two temporal assumptions are perturbed (8-year window halved/doubled, ~slack ±50%: worst Spearman ≥0.997) or when the three influence weights are shifted ±0.25 (worst 0.997 — only five people score on influence today; near-zero deltas are the sparsity finding, not hidden robustness). The combined score is sensitive to the reader’s weighting: excluding survival drops it to 0.772 (47.5% top-40 overlap) and authority to 0.782, while brokerage and influence barely register (0.969 and 0.995). The full ranking-delta table with Spearman, overlap and top-10 swaps is published with every build.

sensitivity.json · full table: output/sensitivity/README.md · data: sensitivity.json

Jan 14, 2011 The mature police state · 308 in post
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