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politocracy

politocracy noun: government that is in some manner chosen by the governed citizens.

Noun

politocracy (countable and uncountable, plural politocracies)

  1. Government that is in some manner chosen by the governed citizens.
    • As a matter of historical fact, U.S. politocracy didn't begin in 1776, and was not established in a coup d'état later. There always may have been elected officials who were the people's enemies, but they were not sufficiently powerful to exert strong politocratic influence until the twentieth...2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 42
    • By chance (or fate) the global financial crisis intervened to deliver an inflection point, providing an enabling stimulus (arguably the excuse) for the politocracy to readdress the sovereignty and subsidiarity considerations, which for many years resulted in the laggard status of the free movement...2014, Eamonn Killian, Capital the EU and the Global Financial Crisis, pages 41–42

Examples of politocracy in a sentence

  • As a matter of historical fact, U.S. politocracy didn't begin in 1776, and was not established in a coup d'état later.2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 42:
  • At the very core of politocracy lies the authentic constitutional tenet of power distribution and mutual checks and balances, fending off the risk of power centralisation and safeguarding justice.'2019, Koos Malan, There is no Supreme Constitution, page 268:

Forms of politocracy

pluralpolitocracies

Origin of politocracy

From Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”) + -cracy.

Questions about politocracy

What does politocracy mean?
Politocracy means government that is in some manner chosen by the governed citizens.
How do you use politocracy in a sentence?
As a matter of historical fact, U.S. politocracy didn't begin in 1776, and was not established in a coup d'état later.
What part of speech is politocracy?
Politocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of politocracy?
The plural of politocracy is politocracies.

Words near politocracy in the dictionary

  1. politizes
  2. politizing
  3. Politkovskaya
  4. Polito
  5. politocracies
  6. politocracy
  7. politocratic
  8. politological
  9. politologist
  10. politologists
  11. politology

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