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democratic deficits

democratic deficits is the plural of democratic deficit.

Meaning of democratic deficit

Noun

democratic deficit (plural democratic deficits)

  1. A situation when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions (particularly governments) are seen to be falling short of fulfilling the principles of the parliamentary democracy in their practices or operation where representative and linked parliamentary integrity becomes widely discussed.
    • The euro was launched with a fundamental democratic deficit, which didn’t trouble the European elite behind it because they had come to believe in a version of manifest destiny.2011, John Lanchester, Once Greece goes…

Questions about democratic deficits

What is democratic deficits the plural of?
Democratic deficits is the plural of democratic deficit.

Words near democratic deficits in the dictionary

  1. democratic backsliding
  2. democratic centralisation
  3. democratic centralism
  4. democratic centralization
  5. democratic deficit
  6. democratic deficits
  7. democratic education
  8. Democratic Kampuchea
  9. Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  10. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
  11. Democratic Republic of Congo

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