state control
Public sector dominance
State control is government authority over institutions, industries, or activities that might otherwise be private or independent.
The term often appears in discussions of economic systems: The oil industry remained under state control.
It can suggest either neutral administration or authoritarian overreach, depending on context: critics warned against increased state control of the media.
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- dictatorshipUnchecked single-ruler government
centralization · apparatus · bureaucracy · central planning · intelligence agencies · Orwellian · sovereignty · planned economy · judiciary · conscription · surveillance · totalitarianism · statism · public ownership · command economy · welfare programs · political repression · regime
- Soviet controlgulags, secret police, show trials, purges, collectivization
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- CubaOld Havana, Cuban identity, Cuban heritage, Guantanamera, Cuban coffee
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
state controlfree market
Commerce without state intervention
laissez-faire · private enterprise · capitalism · market economy · free enterprise
state controlindividual freedom
Personal autonomy from control
personal liberty · autonomy · self-determination · civil liberties · individual rights
state controlanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
decentralization · federalism · self-rule · devolution · statelessness