anocracy

anocracy

English

Etymology

Apparently from an- +‎ -ocracy.

Noun

anocracy (plural anocracies)

1. (politics) A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 374:

     As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.

2. A government not lacking governmental power but absent of political domination.

Translations

political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic

French: anocratie (fr) f Georgian: ანოკრატია (anoḳraṭia) Icelandic: herraræði n Portuguese: anocracia f Russian: анократия (ru) f (anokratija) Swedish: anokrati c