tyrannophobia
English
Etymology
tyranno- + -phobia
Noun
tyrannophobia (uncountable)
- An aversion to autocratic leadership; a policy of limiting the power of leaders.
- 2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions:
- Although tyrannophilia (D. Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.
- 2011, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, →ISBN, page 203:
- On the other hand, if tyrannophobia hampers useful grants of power to the executive, it creates social costs, namely and entrenched reluctance to transfer necessary powers to the executive.
- 2012, Tom Ginsburg, Comparative Constitutional Design, →ISBN, page 329:
- Indeed, if the aim is to minimize the risk of dictatorship, or just to take optimal precautions against it, tyrannophobia might be counterproductive, for reasons we will discuss.
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