welfarismn.
/ˈwɛlfərɪz(ə)m/, /ˈwɛlfɛːrɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈwɛlˌfɛˌrɪz(ə)m/ Originally U.S.
The principles, policies, or economic system associated with a welfare state; the provision of welfare benefits or services by the state to those in need. Cf. welfare statism n. at welfare state n. Derivatives.
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1928 R. W. Dunn in J. B. S. Hardman Amer. Labor Dynamics xix. 220 No person interested in the advance of the American labor movement should fail to apply it when confronted with the salesmanship of welfarism.
1949 Life 25 July 17/2 There must be safeguards so that welfarism does not end in economic or political tyranny.
1976 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women ix. 283 State regulation of the family through welfarism (family allowances etc.)..means that the working class..has the law available to them.
1984 Times 21 Apr. 9/2 The proposition that the ills of Britain..are more or less the fault of capitalism is no more self-evident than the proposition that they are more or less the fault of welfarism.
2008 Wilson Q. Autumn 55/2 In the 20th century the contest in Europe was between the two different economic systems, free-market economics versus totalizing statism and welfarism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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