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anocratic

anocratic adjective: characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government.

Adjective

anocratic (comparative more anocratic, superlative most anocratic)

  1. Characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government.
    • Highly coherent polities have higher mean durability scores than incoherent and anocratic polities, both for the whole sample and for each subsample.1980, Ted Robert Gurr, Handbook of political conflict: theory and research
    • To examine standardization of change in anocratic traits, the sequences of transformation in anocracy that European nations have followed over time are explored.1984, Mark Irving Lichbach, Regime Change and the Coherence of European Governments

Examples of anocratic in a sentence

  • The rise of the populist leader who led the failed February 1992 coup against the Pérez government is a clear indication of the people's aversion to the anocratic order.2016, David C. Jordan, Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies, page 141:
  • Polity codes the US as anocratic from independence in 1776 to 1801 and, again, in late 2020 through the January 6, 2021, coup attempt.2024 May 17, Monty G. Marshall, “Let’s Make America Rational Again”, in Center for Systemic Peace, archived from the original on 30 Jan...

Forms of anocratic

comparativemore anocratic
superlativemost anocratic

Origin of anocratic

From an- + -o- + -cratic.

Questions about anocratic

What does anocratic mean?
Anocratic means characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government.
How do you use anocratic in a sentence?
The rise of the populist leader who led the failed February 1992 coup against the Pérez government is a clear indication of the people's aversion to the anocratic order.
What part of speech is anocratic?
Anocratic is an adjective.

Words near anocratic in the dictionary

  1. anociassociation
  2. anocleithrum
  3. anococcygeal
  4. anocracies
  5. anocracy
  6. anocratic
  7. anoctamin
  8. anoctamins
  9. anocutaneous
  10. anoda
  11. anodal

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