liberalizer
One loosening restrictions
A liberalizer is a person or force that makes something more open, free, or less restrictive.
The term appears most often in political and economic contexts: The new finance minister was seen as a liberalizer who would open markets to foreign investment.
A liberalizer of social policy might advocate relaxing regulations on personal conduct or expanding civil liberties.
One who frees others
- deregulatorOne who removes restrictions
- openerWhat begins something
- democratizerWhat broadens participation
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
independence · self-determination · emancipation · release · openness · empowerment · rights · sovereignty
Agent of institutional improvement
- modernizerOne who updates systems
- deregulatorOne who removes restrictions
- privatizerOne who sells state assets
- openerWhat begins something
transformer · innovator · advocate · pioneer · improver · revisionist · campaigner · facilitator
Favoring reform and innovation
- democratAdvocate for popular rule
- moderateLessen intensity or preside
- centristOne favoring middle positions
- pluralistBeliever in diverse coexistence
secularist · reformist · modernist · internationalist · cosmopolitan · multiculturalist · egalitarian · constitutionalist
One who removes restrictions
- privatizerOne who sells state assets
- marketeerCommercial seller or promoter
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
monetarist · supply-sider · globalist · entrepreneur · investor · business-friendly
emancipator
One who frees others
- deregulatorOne who removes restrictions
- openerWhat begins something
- democratizerWhat broadens participation
autonomy · independence · self-determination · emancipation · release · openness · empowerment · rights · sovereignty · free-market
reformer
Agent of institutional improvement
- modernizerOne who updates systems
- deregulatorOne who removes restrictions
- privatizerOne who sells state assets
opener · transformer · innovator · advocate · pioneer · improver · revisionist · campaigner · facilitator · implementer
progressive
Favoring reform and innovation
- democratAdvocate for popular rule
- moderateLessen intensity or preside
- centristOne favoring middle positions
pluralist · secularist · reformist · modernist · internationalist · cosmopolitan · multiculturalist · egalitarian · constitutionalist · parliamentarian
deregulator
One who removes restrictions
- privatizerOne who sells state assets
- marketeerCommercial seller or promoter
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
laissez-faire · monetarist · supply-sider · globalist · entrepreneur · investor · business-friendly
liberalizernationalizer
One who transfers private to public
restrictor · authoritarian · protectionist · statist · regulator
liberalizertraditionalist
Adherent to established customs
reactionary · authoritarian · conservative · preservationist · restorationist
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