governmental control
Official authority exercised
Governmental control is authority exercised by a government over people, territory, or activities within its jurisdiction.
The phrase appears in discussions of regulation, sovereignty, and civil liberties: The region fell under governmental control after the coup.
It can describe everything from licensing requirements to authoritarian rule, depending on context and degree.
- state powerGovernment's capacity to govern
- statuteEnacted written rule
- judiciaryLaw-interpreting government branch
- data privacy lawsStatutes governing personal information collection
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
taxation · propaganda · censorship · executive order · climate change legislation · enforcement · surveillance · ordinance · nationalization · monetary policy · martial law · national security · border security · bureaucracy · red tape · mandate · subsidy · decree
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
governmental controlanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
lawlessness · statelessness · ungoverned · anarchism · state of nature
governmental controllaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
free market · deregulation · private enterprise · market forces · privatization
governmental controlindividual freedom
Personal autonomy from control
personal liberty · self-determination · corporate control · civil society · decentralization
government, govern, governor, governed, governing, governance, governess, gubernatorial, control