dirigismen.
The policy of state direction and control in economic and social matters. Also transferred.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > pervasive government or state control
governmentalism1841
étatisme1923
dirigisme1951
1951 Archivum Linguisticum 3 220 Linguistic dirigisme, standards of correctness in a constantly evolving language.
1952 V. A. Demant Relig. & Decline of Capitalism iv. 94 These are but a few of the reasons for the increasing dirigisme of economic life on the part of the state.
1957 Times 26 Feb. 4/3 Their [Sinn Fein] programme is a strange amalgam of bombast, Chauvinism, and dirigism.
1967 New Scientist 9 Nov. 329/1 He warned his listeners against ‘too much dirigism’, reminding them of the USSR where crude political interference had forced men into politically neutral fields.
1971 A. H. Halsey & M. A. Trow Brit. Academics iv. 88 The liberal critique..fears..that ‘dirigism’ will supplant university autonomy.
Derivatives
dirigiste adj.
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1957 Economist 12 Oct. 16/2 The French hope that the new community will pursue a ‘dirigiste’, or at least a Keynesian policy regulating and guiding investment on a European scale, and ensuring that the Germans do not upset the whole scheme by deflating too much.
dirigistic adj.
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1959 Times Rev. Industry Dec. 75/3 A ‘manifest crisis’..accompanied by dirigistic measures such as restrictions on production.
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