Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art of government; hence, in a depreciative sense, policy.
Wiktionary
- n. The belief that the centralization of power in a state is the ideal or best way to organize humanity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.
Etymologies
- From state + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
“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
“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.”
“The statism is so bad over here that we’re just tripping over all of the crushed souls.”
Matthew Yglesias » Where Do Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru Get Their Policy Models From
“Couldn’t federalism’s pragmatic advantage of slowing statism be an acknowledgement that less statism is morally superior to more statism and that therefore anything that reduces or slows statism is morally superior to anything that increases or speeds statism?”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Much for Federalism and the Commerce Clause
“Jonathan Freedland's critique of what we could call "statism" in foreign policy Why wait for politicians to oust foreign tyrants?”
The Guardian: Letters: Western intervention in the Arab spring
“It is better described as statism, an economic system in which the government controls the means of production.”
Lists
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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fascism, anarchism, satanism, racism, racialism, nordicism, nazism, socialism, catholicism, national socialism, paganism, hinduism and 67 more...
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Inspiration Collection
piece of cake, firewater, sweetbrier, artesian, artisan, plenty, figurehead, incendiary, vignette, few, minimalism, NO and 40 more...
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