Carterization

English

Etymology

Carter +‎ -ization

Noun

Carterization (uncountable)

1. The act or state of becoming like the presidency of Jimmy Carter, especially in relation to perceived ineffectiveness or unreliability.
   • 1982, Paper Trade Journal, volume 166, numbers 13-24, page 11:

     They set a prolongation of what is happening on the economic scene as the key to restoration from their fall from political grace that resulted during the four-year Carterization of American economic stability.

   • 1982, USSR Report: USA, economics, politics, ideology, numbers 4-6, page 48:

     This, however, could lead to an even greater loss of prestige——to "Carterization," to use the now fashionable definition of an indecisive president with an unreliable policy.

   • 1989, Mark J. Rozell, The Press and the Carter Presidency, page 20:

     In late December 1976 Reston observed that while all new administrations proclaim great changes and then disappoint, "as the Carterization of Washington proceeds, the idea is getting around that it may really be a New Year after all."

   • 1990, Newsweek, volume 116, page 130:

     His Carterization began when he let Newt Gingrich, the second-ranking House Republican, roll him on the budget.

   • 1990, Marcelo Alonso, Organization and Change in Complex Systems, page 182:

     From the viewpoint of the free world the development in international relations has not been favorable; it reached its nadir at the time of the Carterization of American politics , and only recently has the tide begun to turn.

   • 1993, James W. Ceaser, Upside Down and Inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics:

     George Bush's unexpected troubles represented what some began to see as a "Jimmy Carterization" of the Bush presidency, taking place in a period that eerily recalled Carter's own travail during a time of "national malaise."

Related terms

• Carterize

Anagrams

• craterization