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post-democracies

post-democracies is the plural of post-democracy.

Meaning of post-democracy

Noun

post-democracy (plural post-democracies)

  1. A society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
    • It may be that we need to conceptualize democratic authorship in less unitary and more heterarchical terms and instead approach it through a diff erent model of sover-eignty and the public sphere. Maybe we should all embrace “postdemocracy”? Or should one insist that these normative criteria of...2017, Seyla Benhabib, “Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law”, in Penelope Deutscher, Cristina Lafont, editors, Critical Theory in Critical Times. Transforming the Global Political and...

Questions about post-democracies

What is post-democracies the plural of?
Post-democracies is the plural of post-democracy.

Words near post-democracies in the dictionary

  1. post-debate
  2. post-decrement
  3. post-decremented
  4. post-decrementing
  5. post-decrements
  6. post-democracies
  7. post-democracy
  8. post-democratic
  9. post-digital
  10. post-disaster
  11. post-disco

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