anocracy

American  

[uh-nok-ruh-see] / əˈnɒk rə si /

noun

anocracies plural

1. 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.

2. 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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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• anocratic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

noun

• anocracies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of anocracy

First recorded in 1970–75; an- ¹ ( def. ) + -o- ( def. ) + -cracy ( def. )

Example Sentences

And what scholars found was that this anocracy variable was really predictive of a risk for civil war.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022