ABSTRACT
The policy statism principle evolved from the conceptual analysis of the State as policy sovereignty. Being endowed with monopolistic and primacy policymaking power, the policy-oriented State has intervened into individual and collective decisions to achieve politically agreed on objectives and constitutionally declared policy values and ideas. This can be called the State-centeredness theme. Further, policy statism that was defined as the philosophical predisposition against the State policy power was examined through the State-centeredness, State monopoly, State superiority, and State intervention. The State as a policy reality and stakeholder assumes policy superiority to ensure common benefits and interests for the communal and individuals. Here, the dominated State policy intervention is expected to be justified by securing, protecting, and delivering policy goals and values politically and legally authorized by citizen. In Confucianism, however, the State is idealized as the ruling association with the family, in which the “united great equal society” is observed by the ruling class of Junzi. Here though, the sage king statism of benevolent politics has often been subject to the unsuccessful histories of Confucian statism.
