proceduralismn.
/prəˈsiːdʒ(ə)rəlɪz(ə)m/, /prəˈsiːdʒ(ə)rl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /prəˈsidʒərəˌlɪz(ə)m/, /proʊˈsidʒərəˌlɪz(ə)m/ A belief in the importance of instituting and following an agreed procedure; a strict or rigid adherence to procedure as laid down (often with negative connotations).
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1959 World Politics 11 364 Proceduralism—the view, once more, of world politics as a set of procedures..irrespective of the substance of the ‘messages’ carried or decisions made.
1964 H. S. Kariel In Search of Authority vi. 219 Dewey kept his faith in the inherent rightness of the American consensus, assuming that once it was fully articulated it would make the substantive results of proceduralism morally tolerable.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Jan. c1 The Wall Street Journal attributes the decline of American industry to ‘berserk proceduralism’.
2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) i. 18 Can one go beyond proceduralism without courting the dangers of a positive concept of freedom?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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