paternalism
English
Etymology
Noun
paternalism (countable and uncountable, plural paternalisms)
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
- 2012 January, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 74:
- Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.