Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of government; hence, in a depreciative sense, policy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The belief that the centralization of power in a state is the ideal or best way to organize humanity.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The libertarian who refuses to overrule popular statism is saying, "Individual freedom will have to wait until the majority thinks it's a good idea."
The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The libertarian who refuses to overrule popular statism is saying, "Individual freedom will have to wait until the majority thinks it's a good idea."
The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The libertarian who overrules popular statism is saying "At least on this issue, I know better than most people."
The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Kennedy, like his brothers, was a believer in statism, in the goodness of large government, in the benevolent wisdom of experts and bureaucrats, in the need for Mother State to not just guard her little tax-paying chicks, but to potentially guide and shape their every step, thought, and action.
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Kennedy, like his brothers, was a believer in statism, in the goodness of large government, in the benevolent wisdom of experts and bureaucrats, in the need for Mother State to not just guard her little tax-paying chicks, but to potentially guide and shape their every step, thought, and action.
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But populist statism is very likely to change under the right circumstances - e.g. if the consequences of policy choices fall directly to those people advocating them.
Elitism: The Lesser Poison, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This statism is like entropy or time, a process that only proceeds in one direction, towards expansion of government power, never to its narrowing.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Implications of A Privacy Right 2005
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But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism" --- and that philosophy is generally mirrored by their Supreme Court nominees and not by those whose nomination they fight, tooth-and-nail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Osamas Pajamas 2010
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But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism" --- and that philosophy is generally mirrored by their Supreme Court nominees and not by those whose nomination they fight, tooth-and-nail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local jgd777 2010
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But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism" --- and that philosophy is generally mirrored by their Supreme Court nominees and not by those whose nomination they fight, tooth-and-nail.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local jgd777 2010
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