statist
/ˈsteɪtɪst
/noun
An advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs: this is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions...
- Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
- Statists, in fact, are really opposed to charity.
- Statists of a left-liberal bent are usually louder than their counterparts on the right.
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs: a statist approach to health care the statist socialism of the Democrats...
- Freedom cannot be portioned out by government officials in arbitrary doses in order to build what the statist mentalities call a Great Society.
- United by more than racism, they were a party of reform committed to advancing an agrarian statist agenda.
- They read into certain biblical texts a message consistent with their own statist environmentalism.