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Poujadism|ˈpuːʒɑːdɪz(ə)m| Also with lower-case initial. [ad. Fr. Poujadisme (also used): see below.] The mainly reactionary and conservative political philosophy and methods advocated by Pierre Poujade (b. 1920), French publisher and bookseller, who in 1954 founded a movement for the protection of artisans and small shopkeepers (Union de Défense des Commerçants et Artisans), protesting chiefly against the French tax system then in force. Also in extended and allusive applications of similar movements acting in the interests of small-scale commercial enterprise.
1955Life 18 Apr. 63/1 The mushrooming political strength of Poujadism last month forced Premier Edgar Faure's government to promise sweeping exemptions to the small shopkeepers. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 607/2 The work of Chancellor Maupeou was undone..and what was no better than an aristocratic form of Poujadism grew in power of mischief. 1961Listener 7 Sept. 337/1 France presents the contrast between a strongly proletarian industrial society and a peasantry that finds its sporadic expression in Poujadism or the recent Breton uprisings. 1964Economist 1 Feb. 429/1 The ensuing process of concentration in commerce and industry..contributed to the political spread of poujadisme in the next few years. 1970Rev. Politics XXXII. 174 Once organized Poujadism began its spread throughout France, it shared its founder's preoccupation with class defense. 1974tr. Wertheim's Evolution & Revolution 149 Poujadism in France and the Farmers' Party in the Netherlands have..been openly conservative or even reactionary. 1976Times 9 Feb. 13/4 The small business sector..is surely the very class which in other countries has..turned to ‘poujadism’. Hence ˈPoujadist, an advocate or supporter of Poujadism; also attrib. or as adj.; Poujaˈdistic a.
1957Observer 27 Oct. 13/2 Miss S. is not irresponsible, not a Poujadist... But the spirit of Poujadism is awake... ‘The Liberal vote is a ‘Poujadist’, disgruntlement vote.’ 1958Economist 6 Dec. 867/1 Electing poujadists under the name of conservatives does not mean a change. 196020th Cent. Apr. 302 In France there is a strong Poujadist element; small shopkeepers, small factory owners, the depressed bourgeoisie. 1962Daily Tel. 25 June 10/2 Unless Britain is going to become Poujadist in the full sense—that is, inimical to all politicians as such—then the electorate will have to accept the sense expressed by the Prime Minister. 1967M. Dogan in Lipset & Rokkan Party Syst. & Voter Alignments iv. 181 The Poujadistic social epidemic spread particularly in the small sleepy towns. 1972New Statesman 28 Jan. 100/2 Another mass movement of angry shopkeepers, the Poujadist wave of the 1950s. 1977Guardian Weekly 27 Feb. 8/3 The Poujadist Progress party, led by Mr Mogens Glistrup, the controversial Copenhagen tax-lawyer, is once again the second largest party with 26 seats. |