Wiktionary
welfarist
a. Pertaining to support for the politics or principles of the welfare state. n. 1 Someone who supports welfare, especially of animals. 2 A supporter of the politics or principles of the welfare state.
WordNet
welfarist
adj. of or relating to a welfare state [syn: welfare-statist]
Usage examples of "welfarist".
By the 1960s and 1970s, even though the model of disciplinary modernization had been imposed across the world, even though the welfarist policies set in motion by the dominant countries had become unstoppable and were naively championed by leaders in the subordinated countries, and even in this new world of communicative media and networks, the mechanisms of modern sovereignty were no longer sufficient to rule the new subjectivities.