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postdemocracy

postdemocracy is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of postdemocracy

pluralpostdemocracies

Questions about postdemocracy

What is postdemocracy the alternative spelling of?
Postdemocracy is the alternative spelling of post-democracy.

Words near postdemocracy in the dictionary

  1. postdefervescence
  2. postdeglacial
  3. postdeirid
  4. postdelivery
  5. postdemocracies
  6. postdemocracy
  7. postdemocratic
  8. postdental
  9. postdentals
  10. postdentary
  11. postdeparture

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