municipalism

From municipal +‎ -ism.

municipalism (countable and uncountable, plural municipalisms)

1. The condition of being municipal.
2. (politics, urban studies) The political philosophy or practice of preferring public services administered by local government and local organisations.
   • 2017 September 22, Charlotte Joppien, Municipal Politics in Turkey: Local Government and Party Organisation, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Extensive welfare provision such as coal, grocery packages and clothing soon became a characteristic of RP municipalism.

   • 2019 July 31, David James, Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     Rochdale socialists, for example, evinced an equally keen interest in municipalism within the context of socialist unity. Moreover, municipal intervention did not always strike a chord with the interests of local trade unions.

• “municipalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.