IDEOLOGY PROFILE / STATISM

Étatism.

Holds that the state should be the principal organizer of economic and social life through ownership, planning, industrial policy and administration, without necessarily abolishing private property or political competition. Variants run from interwar corporatist projects to postwar national development planning.

StatismTechnocracy

AT A GLANCE

Defining principles

01The state stands above social factions and directs accumulation

02Industrial policy and planning replace market self-organization

03Expert administration over a mixed ownership base

These are broad descriptions of an intellectual tradition. Individual adherents, historical organizations, and governments may differ.

THE PROFILE

How this tradition is modeled

Our model scores positions on independent dimensions. A dimension omitted here is not treated as a neutral belief; it simply isn’t a defining part of this profile.

You Étatism

Political economy

Private property70

Market exchange43

Economic planning78

Redistribution65

Worker control38

State ownership78

Organized sectors83

Class politics43

Institutions

Political pluralism68

Centralization88

Direct democracy35

Civil liberties55

Expert governance85

Local autonomy33

Society & identity

Social hierarchy63

National sovereignty78

Internationalism45

Culture & change

Cultural traditionalism57

Foreign affairs

Use of force65

Scale: 0–100 within each dimension. Bars show relative positioning, not strength of conviction. Unanswered dimensions are omitted.

YOUR PROFILE

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THE DISTINCTIONS

Compare with another ideology

Étatismvs.

Favors governance and policy design by specialized experts, sometimes at the expense of direct popular decision-making.

Direct democracy

Étatism 35Technocracy 10

Expert governance

Étatism 85Technocracy 100

Centralization

Étatism 88Technocracy 78

Economic planning

Étatism 78Technocracy 75

Numbers indicate model positions on a 0–100 scale, not a moral ranking or measure of certainty.