Relating to or characteristic of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
‘a statist approach to healthcare’
- ‘the statist socialism of the Democrats’
- ‘Freedom cannot be portioned out by government officials in arbitrary doses in order to build what the statist mentalities call a Great Society.’
- ‘United by more than racism, they were a party of reform committed to advancing an agrarian statist agenda.’
- ‘They read into certain biblical texts a message consistent with their own statist environmentalism.’
- ‘These foreign aid programs rely on a series of myths concocted by a statist intellectual class.’
- ‘More plausible is the proposition that the popular rationale for regulation is statist nonsense.’