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adj. - Of or relating to a social system based on the assumption by a political group of primary responsibility for the individual and social health of its citizens.

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  • George Will disagrees with Friedman's conclusion about France and the EU but agrees they are a bunch of welfare-statist loungeabouts.
  • But the biggest dilemma is that most parties on the left have not figured out how to adapt their old welfare-statist ideologies to modern economic realities — while...
  • Hmm. But the biggest dilemma is that most parties on the left have not figured out how to adapt their old welfare-statist ideologies to modern economic realities-while...
  • People point to Scandinavian countries, which aren’t so much socialist as welfare-statist, and these are relatively small, homogeneous societies that aren’t squandering...
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