corporatism

From corporate +‎ -ism.

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corporatism (countable and uncountable, plural corporatisms)

1. The principle or practice of corporate action; (in later use chiefly) specifically, a political ideology which advocates for government and social organization by collective interest groups.
2. (derogatory, possibly nonstandard) The influence or effects of large business corporations.

   Synonym: corporatocracy

   • 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:

     The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.

• corporatist

• “corporatism, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• proto-racism, protoracism

Borrowed from French corporatisme.

corporatism n (uncountable)

1. corporatism