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etatism noun[ U ] politics specializeduk /ˈet.ə.tɪ.zəm/ us /əˈteɪ.t̬ɪ.zəm/ complete control by the state (= a country's government) over its citizens(= the people who live in a country) and over the economy: He espoused strong nationalist rhetoric and authoritarian etatism. Their government had been vacillating between etatism and free-market policies for several decades. The essay is an inquiry into the natures of etatism and liberalism. Under the policy of etatism, state economic enterprises evolved as the principal mechanism for industrialization. In this period, economy and society were dominated by state intervention, and etatism was enshrined in the constitution as one of the key principles of the regime. The distinctive elements of the nation's transformation during that period were etatism, or the top-down imposition of the ruler's will, and cosmopolitanism, or the absorption of foreign influences. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Systems of government absolutism advanced capitalism ancien régime anti-apartheid anti-communism democrat democratic democratically democratization democratize kakistocracy kleptocracy kleptocratic majority rule martial law plutocratic police state post-apartheid pre-fascist pure democracy |