Statecreated

Statecreated is a term used in political science and public administration to describe processes, institutions, or norms that are established through formal government action. The concept emphasizes that the state is the primary agent of creation.

In this sense, statecreated entities include regulatory agencies, public services, laws, and administrative boundaries. The term helps distinguish such developments from outcomes driven primarily by markets, civil society, or non-governmental actors.

The usage of statecreated is not uniform; some scholars use it to stress intentional design and sovereignty, while others view contemporary governance as a hybrid of state and non-state input, making statecreated only part of a broader set of origins.

Beyond politics, statecreated may appear in discussions of information systems or software to indicate that an item is instantiated as part of a system state. However, this usage is rare and context-dependent, and not standardized.

See also: State-building, public administration, regulatory state, governance, state capacity.