austeritarian

English

Etymology

austerity +‎ -arian

Pronunciation

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Noun

austeritarian (plural austeritarians)

1. One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.
   • 2013, Miriam Lord, “A reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians: carry on suffering”, in The Irish Times‎^[1]:

     And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…

   • 2015, Glen Newey, “The HSBC Buccaneers”, in London Review of Books‎^[2]:

     Austeritarians bang on about the debt while failing to plug revenue holes.

   • 2018, Zsófia Barta, In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries‎^[3], University of Michigan Press, page 8:

     Nevertheless, it is useful to briefly discuss the theoretical controversies about admissible levels of debt and the tolerable duration of significant fiscal imbalances to explain why it is impossible to authoritatively delineate the universe of truly troubling cases of sustained and excessive debt accumulation from more moderate ones, and to establish that this book does not need to take sides in the academically and politically fraught debate between "austeritarians" and Keynesians.

Adjective

austeritarian (comparative more austeritarian, superlative most austeritarian)

1. Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.
   • 2012, “Our democracy against their austerity”, in Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt‎^[4]:

     The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social order to an ultra-liberal model - at the cost of millions of jobs, abrupt social decline and significant threats to democracy itself.

   • 2014, Steffen Lehndorff, “The ‘Austeritarian’ Integration Dividing Europe”, in Transform! Europe‎^[5]:

     This observation is especially important because with our criticism of the existing ‘structural reforms’ being pushed through by the ‘austeritarian regime’ we do not mean to encourage the belief that reforms are not necessary; they are, especially in those countries most badly affected by the crisis.

   • 2021, Gustave Massiah, “The Paris Commune, an Alterglobalism”, in Socialism and Democracy, volume 35, number 1, →DOI, page 179:

     Financial capital and multinational companies impose an austeritarian turn (austerity and authoritarianism).