electoralism

Noun

electoralism (uncountable)

1. A state of partial transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule, in which the regime conducts the electoral aspects of democratic governance in a relatively free and fair manner.
2. The strategy of electing politicians into a representative government in order to create political change.
   • “In December, 1906, […] the great obstacle between the Confederation General du Travail and the Socialist party, the only organized forces of the working-class, was the electoralism which dominated the party. Today, in 1912, the great obstacle is the anti-parliamentarism which rages within the C....1912 July, William E. Bohn, “La Guerre Sociale not Anti-Political”, in Charles H. Kerr, editor, The International Socialist Review, volume XIII, number 1, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, page 82...
   • Indeed, in 1986 the movement had already suffered a split with the southern traditionalists who opposed the twin policy of electoralism and violence. Ruair O Brdaigh became the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fin […]2000 Fall, Michael Von Tangen Page, M. L. R. Smith, “War by Other Means: The Problem of Political Control in Irish Republican Strategy”, in Armed Forces & Society, volume 27, number 1, Transaction...