statism

American  

[stey-tiz-uhm] / ˈsteɪ tɪz əm /

noun

1. the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.

2. support of or belief in the sovereignty of a state, usually a republic.

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statism British  

/ ˈsteɪtɪzəm /

noun

1. the theory or practice of concentrating economic and political power in the state, resulting in a weak position for the individual or community with respect to the government

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Other Word Forms

• antistatism noun

Etymology

Origin of statism

First recorded in 1600–10; state + -ism

Example Sentences

Here we see the classic slippery-slope argument: Although any thinking adult in the mid-20th century would have had cause to fear the statism of the Nazi or Soviet type, it is hard to envision Britain's National Health Service as the embryo of jack-booted totalitarianism.

From Salon

Mr Dowden also denied criticism the alert was an example of nanny statism as he appeared on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuennssberg programme.

From BBC

Her answer to her book’s title — “What Ails France?” — is a “righteous consensus,” the statism that “asphyxiates the country’s potential.”

From Washington Post

Indeed, the solution for the precarious status of many Americans today is, for Trump, a return not to the 1970s and 80s, when white ethnicity was celebrated across the political spectrum, or to the 1990s, when the culture wars were at their peak, but to the mid-twentieth century, and to the industrial economy and welfare statism of that era.

From Salon

“Everything is on the line, it’s liberty, freedom, capitalism versus statism, state control of industry, eliminating oil and gas, law and order, the Second Amendment comes into play, taxes will go up under Joe Biden, energy will be shut down. He is pledging trillions of dollars in AOC’s Green New Deal, he’s adopted the 'Bolshevik Bernie' socialist agenda, border security or amnesty, constitutionalist or judicial activist, strong peace through strength policies or the policies of appeasement … it’s all on the line.”

From Fox News