nondemocracy
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Alternative forms
- non-democracy
Etymology
Noun
nondemocracy (countable and uncountable, plural nondemocracies)
- (uncountable) Any political system that is not democratic.
- 2006, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, page 176:
- In democracy, the citizens get relatively higher benefits; the elites benefit in nondemocracy.
- (countable) A regime, country etc. that is not democratic.
- 2017 May 10, Julian Borger, The Guardian:
- Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal commentator, called the move “a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the United States”. “This is the kind of thing that goes on in non-democracies,” Toobin said.
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