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The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.

statist stat'ist adj. & n.

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In development studies, statism means the direction and control of economic and social affairs by the state. The practices included: investment in public enterprises; centralized economic planning; the regulation of employment; and other price-distorting interventions in the market. The economic aims are to promote industrialization and protection against foreign competition; politically, the state and the government might gain in domestic legitimacy. Inspired more by nationalism than by socialism, statism is compatible with state capitalism. Since 1980 statism has been challenged by economic liberalism and structural adjustment reforms. Statism is also referred to as dirigisme and étatisme. France and Japan were classic statist examples.

— Peter Burnell

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Statism (or etatism) is an economic position that includes a major state role in directing the economy, either directly through state-owned enterprises and other types of machinery of government, or indirectly through economic planning.[1][2] It may also refer to a political philosophy that

sovereignty is vested not in the people but in the national state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, the prestige, and the well-being of the state. The fascist concept of statism, which as seen as synonymous with the concept of nation, and corporatism repudiates individualism and exalts the nation as an organic body headed by the Supreme Leader and nurtured by unity, force, and discipline."[3]

The term is sometimes used to refer to state capitalism or highly regulated market economies with large amounts of government intervention. It is also used to refer to state socialism or co-operative economic systems that use the state, through nationalization, as a means of running industry in the interest of the majority.

Statism reached its highest point in the centrally planned fascist and communist countries, but exists in varying degrees in every country in the world. [4] Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union, many Western European nations ran mixed economies (10-45% public). In Singapore, 60% of the country's GDP comes from government-linked companies. State-run industries are part of the public sector.

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Notes

  1. ^ "statism" Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Taylor & Francis, 2001. p. 1475
  2. ^ "statism". Merriam-Webster.
  3. ^ "statism" Political Science Dictionary. Editor Jack C. Plano. Dryden Press, 1973
  4. ^ "statism" Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Taylor & Francis, 2001. p. 1475

References

  • Mikhail Bakunin (1873), Statism and Anarchy
  • Nejatullah Siddiqi (1968), The Ideal of Statism. Islamic Public Economics.

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Statist

Dansk (Danish)
n. - statsmand, politiker
adj. - statistisk, være tilhænger af al magt til staten

Français (French)
n. - statisticien, partisan de l'Étatisme
adj. - étatique

Deutsch (German)
n. - Statistiker, Staatsmann
adj. - dirigistisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κρατικιστής, στατιστικολόγος
adj. - κρατικιστής, στατιστικός

Italiano (Italian)
statista, di stato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - estatístico (m), estadista (m) (f)
adj. - estadista

Русский (Russian)
статистик

Español (Spanish)
n. - partidario del estatismo, estadista
adj. - estatismo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - statist, statistiker
adj. - statist-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
中央集权论者, 国家集权论者, 中央集权论的, 中央集权论者的, 国家集权论的, 国家集权论者的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 中央集權論者, 國家集權論者
adj. - 中央集權論的, 中央集權論者的, 國家集權論的, 國家集權論者的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 국가 통제 주의자
adj. - 국가 통제 주의자의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 国家統制主義者, 統計学者
adj. - 国家統制の

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סטטיסטיקאי, דוגל בריכוזיות השלטון‬
adj. - ‮של סטטיסטיקאי, של ריכוזיות השלטון‬

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