anocratic
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
anocratic (comparative more anocratic, superlative most anocratic)
- (politics) Characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government.
- 1980, Ted Robert Gurr, Handbook of political conflict: theory and research:
- Highly coherent polities have higher mean durability scores than incoherent and anocratic polities, both for the whole sample and for each subsample.
- 1984, Mark Irving Lichbach, Regime Change and the Coherence of European Governments:
- To examine standardization of change in anocratic traits, the sequences of transformation in anocracy that European nations have followed over time are explored.
- 2016, David C. Jordan, Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies, page 141:
- The rise of the populist leader who led the failed February 1992 coup against the Pérez government is a clear indication of the people's aversion to the anocratic order.
Usage notes[edit]
- Used especially to describe an autocratic regime that keeps itself in power despite the presence of a supposedly democratic system.
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Translations[edit]
characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government
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