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politocratic

politocratic adjective: pertaining to the role of citizens in the organization and choice of government.

Adjective

politocratic (comparative more politocratic, superlative most politocratic)

  1. Pertaining to the role of citizens in the organization and choice of government.
    • I argue that this is still the case, although the elections in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the rapid evolution in Poland of a modified multi-party system with organized oppositions may well create new forms of politocratic systems that go further on the road already traveled by Yugoslavia.1990, Bogdan Denis Denitch, Limits and Possibilities, page 7
    • The right thing to do faced with chronic annual trillion-dollar budget deficits and globally destabilizing sovereign debts is to pare the politocratic foreign-policy mission.2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 125

Forms of politocratic

comparativemore politocratic
superlativemost politocratic

Origin of politocratic

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

Questions about politocratic

What does politocratic mean?
Politocratic means pertaining to the role of citizens in the organization and choice of government.
What part of speech is politocratic?
Politocratic is an adjective.

Words near politocratic in the dictionary

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

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