2. Noun. Etatism; control of the state over the individual citizen. ¹
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Definition of Etatisme
1. extreme state control over the individual [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etatisme
Literary usage of Etatisme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"... and this has grown more evident here since the Radical majority have leant
towards etatisme, ie an extension of the functions of government.1 On the ..."
2. Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter (1914)
"VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT m^fm^m is being confounded with Statism (I'etatisme) .
. . The socialist party, almost everywhere, has become the party of ..."
3. Central Europe by Friedrich Naumann (1917)
"In the place of a central nationalism there is what the French term etatisme,
the mere machinery of government: monarchy, bureaucracy, army. ..."
4. Law in the Modern State by Léon Duguit (1919)
"... against etatisme which, in its broad perspective, seems to have arisen about
the time of the Dreyfus case.6 The republic did not emerge unscathed from ..."
5. Modern French Legal Philosophy by Alfred Fouillée (1916)
"This theory is the germ of the doctrine which exalts the State [etatisme], for
it is certain that an expense which may benefit a great number of persons ..."
6. Mediaeval Philosophy Illustrated from the System of Thomas Aquinas by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"... .2 At first sight this looks like an intolerable and autocratic notion, a
worship of the state, etatisme, which is bound to destroy individual autonomy. ..."
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