Statism
Etatism ( French: État "state") describes a political assumption according to which economic, social or ecological problems can be overcome through state action. The term originated in France around 1880 . Statistic positions represent mercantilism , Marxism and National Socialism , for example . Opposing positions to statism ("anti-statism") represent liberalism , libertarianism , minarchism , anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism .
Applications
Today statism can:
- Legally restrict individual privacy in favor of the state's sphere of influence
- be associated with centralized conceptions of the state, in particular aiming at the expansion of federal powers over the rights of constituent states
- denote certain positions in the planned economy , in which state control is only effective in important branches of industry, and
- represent a mindset exclusively geared to the interests of the state
Statism in different countries
A bureaucratic statism already existed alongside a particularism of the estates in the epoch of enlightened absolutism . In Switzerland the present thereby strengthening the central power of the will, however, federal towards the cantons expressed. In Turkey , statism is one of the basic principles of Kemalism . In France, Gaullism stands for a centralized and dirigistic state. The Peronism in Argentina based on a statist-authoritarian state understanding.
Individual evidence
- ^ Etatism , Markus Blaser in the dictionary of social policy on socialinfo.ch
- ^ Schubert, Klaus / Martina Klein: Das Politiklexikon. 4th, updated Bonn: Dietz 2006.
- ^ Arthur Schlegelmilch: Beginnings and perspectives of the constitutional state in Germany and in the Habsburg Empire between 1780 and 1820 , in: Digital Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2000. Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- ^ Etatismus , duden.de, accessed on January 27, 2012
