Skip to main content
Thatcherism

Thatcherism

1 8.7
Ideas that favour free markets and less government control, for example selling state-owned companies
  • noun
  • /ˈθætʃərˌɪzəm/
translation icon : thatcherismo
  • As Owen Jones maintains, "In only a decade or so, Thatcherism had completely changed how class was seen," so that "the wealthy were adulated" (2011, 70).
  • Thatcherism and Reaganism

Examples

  • 1979 saw the rise of the Algerian right-wing synchronous with the rise of Thatcherism and Reaganism in the West.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Friedman's monetarism appeared as a partial theory that was embraced wholeheartedly by Thatcherism and less literally by Reaganomics.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Reaganomics was rising in America, and Thatcherism in England.

    Academic text (2010)
  • People started to speak about Reaganomics and Thatcherism.

    Academic text (2018)
  • My attention in this piece is largely on the displacement of those white workers, which is not to say that Thatcherism did not maintain and extend the exclusion of women and people of color as well.

    Academic text (2016)
  • By such socialists, Thatcherism was seen, when the time came, as a form of greed, an infatuation with profit and advantage.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Thatcherism works to marginalize working-class white men who had been considered crucial to consensus government midcentury.

    Academic text (2016)
  • As Stuart Hall (1988) notes, what Thatcherism vanishes is a Fordist white, working-class version of Labour.

    Academic text (2016)
  • My reading contends that Money can be read as a critique of Thatcherism only because it cedes so much ground to Thatcherism's premises, thereby codifying as common sense the ideology that it is widely taken to oppose (2014, 60).

    Academic text (2016)
  • Thatcherism emphasizes Thatcherism free markets and reduced government intervention in the economy.

Synonyms

neoliberalism
vsThatcherism
  • Specialized
5 8.4

An idea that favors free markets, less regulation, and smaller government spending

is a specific national policy programme enacting privatization and less state intervention

How Market-Oriented

laissez-faire
  • Formal
7 8.7
neoliberalism
  • Specialized
5 8.4
Thatcherism
1 8.7
mixed economy
  • Specialized
2 4.1
socialism
192 5.0

Surface Forms

Thatcherism singular
Thatcherisms plural

Morphology

Thatcherism = Thatcher (transparent) = Thatcher + ism

Formed by the proper name 'Thatcher' plus the productive suffix '-ism' to denote the political ideology associated with that person; meaning is directly derivable from the base.

Etymology

The word Thatcherism comes from the name of British leader Thatcher and the ending -ism, which means 'belief' or 'system', the same ending you see in capitalism. So Thatcherism means the set of political ideas linked to Margaret Thatcher, such as free markets, selling government-owned companies, and less government control.