Shrinking state

Shrinking state stands for:

• a surviving state that has been made smaller through secession or assignment of territory, see secession and assignment of territory
• a political catchphrase that polemically describes the state as a state whose functions as an economic subject and as an authority regulating the economy are reduced to a minimum, see night watchman state and minarchism

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.