procontrol

Adjective

procontrol (comparative more procontrol, superlative most procontrol)

1. Supportive of greater government control over society, authoritarian or supportive of greater authoritarianism.
   • Conservative procontrol values (including importance of crime prevention and support for extensive police powers) correlate positively with lethal violence. Social trust, in turn, correlates inversely and strongly with homicide... Southern states have, on average, more than double the homicide rate...2014, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä et al., “Cross-Comparative Perspectives on Global Homicide Trends”, in Crime and Justice, volume 43, number 1, page 190
   • The US respondents were asked to give their views of the assertions, "There should be a gun in every home," and "Police should use whatever force is necessary to maintain law and order." These may be interpreted as measures of "pro-control" attitudes. For OECD countries, a rough counterpart may...2018, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, "American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Trends and Variation in the Use of Incarceration", Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment, §5
2. Synonym of protectionist: supportive of export controls over international trade, especially for political ends or to prevent technology transfer.
   • The pattern of U.S. trade expansion followed by trade restrictions also appears to have characterized U.S.-Soviet economic relations, not only for the past three decades, but plausibly since the 1920s. Unlike earlier fluctuations, however, recent cycles have been occurring more rapidly and lasting...1991, Gordon B. Smith, "The Politics of East-West Trade: An Analysis of Cyclical Trends", Laws and Politics of West-East Technology Transfer, p. 62
   • Gary K. Bertsch and Steven Eliott believe that the procontrol initiatives adopted by Japan do not represent any fundamental change in Japanese export-control policy...2019', Kurt N. Maksad, "The Toshiba-Kongsberg Technology Diversion: A Case Study in East-West Strategic Trade Control", Soviet Foreign Economic Policy and International Security, p. 149, n. 29

   Synonyms:

   protectionist

3. Synonym of antigun: supportive of greater gun control, typically inclusive of opposition to gun rights.
   • Miller links together a mountain of facts to dismantle the pro-control arguments concocted by the president and his allies, and calculatingly fed to the American people by many of her peers in the Fourth Estate.2013, NRA Institute for Legal Action, "Emily Gets Her Gun!"
   • If procontrol opinion really is as genuine and as strong as survey responses indicate, why is it that procontrol groups cannot mobilize large numbers of voters to call or write to their elected representatives to urge them to vote in a procontrol direction, while the NRA routinely manages to do...2017, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, page 442

   Synonyms:

   antigun