statists
Big government advocates
Statists are people who favor strong central government control over economic and social affairs.
The term is typically used by libertarians and free-market advocates to criticize those they see as too eager to expand state power: The statists want government solutions to every problem.
A statist, as noun or adjective, supports or relates to such positions.
Rulers demanding total compliance
- collectivistsGroup-priority ideology adherents
- centralistsAdvocates of consolidated governance
- interventionistsSupporters of external involvement
- totalitariansRulers with unlimited power
paternalists · socialists · nationalists · absolutists · autocrats · planners · regulators · bureaucrats
Experts in numerical analysis
- analystsThose who dissect data
- demographersThose who study populations
- actuariesInsurance probability specialists
- researchersThose who study systematically
pollsters · surveyors · number-crunchers · quantifiers · biostatisticians
authoritarians
Rulers demanding total compliance
- collectivistsGroup-priority ideology adherents
- centralistsAdvocates of consolidated governance
- interventionistsSupporters of external involvement
totalitarians · paternalists · socialists · nationalists · absolutists · autocrats · planners · regulators · bureaucrats · anti-libertarians
statisticians
Experts in numerical analysis
- analystsThose who dissect data
- demographersThose who study populations
- actuariesInsurance probability specialists
researchers · pollsters · surveyors · number-crunchers · quantifiers · biostatisticians
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
statistslibertarians
Advocates of minimal governance
anarchists · anarcho-capitalists · individualists · decentralists · anti-authoritarians
statistsindividualists
Those prioritizing personal independence
- statistical analysisMathematical examination of datasets
- vital statisticsPopulation movement records
- crime statisticsNumerical records of offenses
- statistical chartsVisual data representations
- statistical trendsDirections in numerical data
- statistically significantUnlikely by chance alone
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