restrictionism

English

Etymology

From restriction +‎ -ism.

Noun

restrictionism (uncountable)

1. (economics, politics) The advocacy of restrictions on free trade, immigration etc.
   • 2019 May 22, Farhad Manjoo, “America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 June 2019:

     It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.

Related terms

• restrictionist