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  • noun Political / Economic system in which power is exercised through large organizations (businesses, trade unions, their associated lobbying efforts, etc.) working in concert or conflict with each other; usually with the goal of influencing or subsuming the direction of the state and generally only to benefit their own socioeconomic agendas at the expense of the will of the people, and to the detriment of the common good.
  • noun The influence of large business corporations in politics.

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  • noun control of a state or organization by large interest groups

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Examples

  • Okay, he didn't need to use the term corporatism, he could have used fascism.

    HOSTILE TAKEOVER: An Unauthorized Review 2006

  • Political scientists use the term corporatism to describe a practice whereby a state, through the process of licensing and regulating officially-incorporated social, religious, economic, or popular organizations, effectively co-opts their leadership or circumscribes their ability to challenge state authority by establishing the state as the source of their legitimacy, as well as sometimes running them, either directly or indirectly through corporations.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • Under Hitler and Mussolini, Economic Fascism went under the name corporatism.

    HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010

  • Doe the trolls actually believe that corporatism is less a threat to our republic than socialism?

    Think Progress » Fox News Scolds WellPoint Rate Hike, Not For Hurting Consumers, But For Energizing Health Reform Advocates 2010

  • This is not what some call corporatism and is not about companies making decisions, because companies don't think or make decisions.

    Dave Johnson: Will Supreme Court Rule For One-Dollar-One-Vote? 2010

  • In the end I got so cross that I just ripped the weed away, causing great damage to the semi-succulent beneath; like trying to cut the strangling hand of corporatism from the throat of a natural healthy society and realising that the organism has been infested to such a degree that it may never recover from the surgery.

    August 6th, 2006 dame_habonde 2006

  • GOLDBERG: ... that they can ` t think straight about this, so, but the economic philosophy of fascism was something called corporatism, which is not what RFK Jr. and these banner-snatchers think it means, but basically what it was is that the government should have a guiding hand in every institution: schools, corporations, businesses, trade associations, everywhere.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008 2008

  • What we see in the banking and Wall Street sector is called corporatism - the melding and collaboration between government and corporations.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • This is not what some call corporatism and is not about companies making decisions, because companies don't think or make decisions.

    Seeing the Forest 2010

  • This is not what some call corporatism and is not about companies making decisions, because companies don't think or make decisions.

    Blog entry 2010

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