Definitions
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- adjective of or relating to a welfare state
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Examples
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For Left Party leader Oskar Lafontaine, the nomination of a key architect of Schröder's reforms is helpful ammunition in his propaganda war against the SPD. Steinmeier's biggest problem may be that while he and Schröder may have developed some sensible reforms, they never came up with a convincing narrative of what one might call a modern progressive reformism — a narrative of opportunity and inclusion to replace the party's traditional welfare-statist and unionist platform.
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But the biggest dilemma is that most parties on the left have not figured out how to adapt their old welfare-statist ideologies to modern economic realities — while appealing to voters who see modern reform as a betrayal of their parties 'traditional socialist ideals, and who often have more-extreme left-wing parties to turn to.
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George Will disagrees with Friedman's conclusion about France and the EU but agrees they are a bunch of welfare-statist loungeabouts.
Archive 2005-06-01 KaneCitizen 2005
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In the dark, wintery, welfare-statist nights of Northern Europe, the people's grasp at life was done by moving aimlessly in circles.
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In the dark, wintery, welfare-statist nights of Northern Europe, the people's grasp at life was done by moving aimlessly in circles.
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In the dark, wintery, welfare-statist nights of Northern Europe, the people's grasp at life was done by moving aimlessly in circles.
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In the dark, wintery, welfare-statist nights of Northern Europe, the people's grasp at life was done by moving aimlessly in circles.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Michael Moeller 2010
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In the dark, wintery, welfare-statist nights of Northern Europe, the people's grasp at life was done by moving aimlessly in circles.
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Hmm. But the biggest dilemma is that most parties on the left have not figured out how to adapt their old welfare-statist ideologies to modern economic realities-while appealing to voters who see modern reform as a betrayal of their parties 'traditional socialist ideals, and who often have more-extreme left-wing parties to turn to.
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People point to Scandinavian countries, which aren’t so much socialist as welfare-statist, and these are relatively small, homogeneous societies that aren’t squandering their wealth trying to maintain military hegemony over the wholeworld.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010
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