nondemocracy
English
Alternative forms
- non-democracy
Etymology
From non- + democracy.
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, p. 176:
- In democracy, the citizens get relatively higher benefits; the elites benefit in nondemocracy.
- 2006, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, p. 176:
- (countable) A regime, country etc. that is not democratic.
- 2017, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 10 May:
- 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.
- 2017, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 10 May: