anocracy
Americannoun
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government that is a hybrid of democracy and autocracy, often as a transitional phase when one of these forms of government takes on characteristics of the other.
Political scientists noted significant democratic reforms in the traditionally authoritarian regime’s evolution to anocracy.
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a nation or state having such a form of government.
Freedom of the press is one of the first pillars of democracy threatened in an anocracy’s slide toward totalitarianism.
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Origin of anocracy
First recorded in 1970–75; an- 1 ( def. ) + -o- ( def. ) + -cracy ( def. )
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And what scholars found was that this anocracy variable was really predictive of a risk for civil war.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
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