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For most of its history England was one of the most decentralised and voluntaristic countries in the world—with self-governing cities, powerful local governments, volunteers keeping the show on the road.

From Economist • Dec. 11, 2014

In a blogpost that analyses the way the Olympics coverage pushed this "voluntaristic" idea that "anyone can do it", Matt Bolton cites the comments of some of Team GB's gold medallists.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012

The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum.

From Time Magazine Archive

What particularly riles Andreski about Parsons is his "voluntaristic theory of action," which in essence states that to understand behavior it is necessary to take into account men's wishes, beliefs, resources and decisions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The critics had simply failed to see that verification by experience is just as integral a part of voluntaristic procedure as experimental postulation, and that James himself had from the first asserted this.

From Pragmatism by Murray, D. L.