anocracies

Noun

anocracy (countable and uncountable, plural anocracies)

1. A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
   • As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 374
2. A government not lacking governmental power but absent of political domination.