The old system was distinctly paternalist: either the employer or the government would provide.

ECONOMIST: Falling short

They hang on to the traditional model of paternalist local government, all councils and committees and mayoral chains.

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Others will consider him worryingly paternalist - or maybe, all of the above.

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Lord Turner, head of Britain's Pensions Commission, is the latest soft paternalist to recommend such a scheme (see article).

ECONOMIST: Soft paternalism

But the complaint betrays an old-fashioned, paternalist view that having the right policies matters more than persuading the public of their value.

ECONOMIST: Pleasing the voters

Theirs was the backlash of a paternalist establishment to a mutiny by a member of a caste dog-tired of paternalism--a caste to which protection had been promised in exchange for quiescence, but which, at long last, had tired of this quiescence.

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