Word: draconianism
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...example, the bloated, wasteful Pentagon is not considered to be part of "big government." Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union challenge U.S. security, and despite their neo-isolationist stance, Republicans propose a $60 billion dollar increase in defense spending. Ironically, the Food Stamps program may survive draconian reductions since it is considered to benefit farmers and the agricultural industry, not the poor...
...government reluctantly agreed to the first free elections in 29 years of independence, army generals pulled the plug when the F.I.S. won a plurality in the first round of voting. The generals installed a puppet civilian government rather than allow a second-round electoral victory for the fundamentalists, whose draconian vision of an Islamic republic had capitalized on the anger and discontent of millions of the young, poor and unemployed...
Politicians, responding to the overwhelming resentment and public unhappiness bred by this sentiment and the growing antipathy towards the poor (never a very important constituency) are racing to harness and codify this anger. This results in harsh, almost draconian, short-sighted proposals, which will inevitably turn out to be counterproductive...
This provides a strong disincentive to transfer: not only is the student assigned to a random house that may be as bad as the one she left, but she will probably have to do it without friends. This draconian proposal illustrates that students' happiness has become entirely subservient to the goal of racial and social diversity...
Harvard promises not be as draconian. System administrators have already begun sending warning messages to users with unreasonably large inboxes...