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pseudo-election

pseudo-election is the alternative form of pseudoelection.

Meaning of pseudoelection

Noun

pseudoelection (plural pseudoelections)

  1. A sham election; an election organized without any significant political choice or real impact on the results, often held in dictatorial regimes to feign the appearance of public legitimacy.
    • As Wiseman notes, many observers saw Jammeh's maneuvers as a test run for the plans of Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha to legitimize his own dictatorship through a pseudoelection.1999, “Introduction”, in Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Democratization in Africa, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page xxii

Forms of pseudo-election

pluralpseudo-elections

Questions about pseudo-election

What is pseudo-election the alternative form of?
Pseudo-election is the alternative form of pseudoelection.

Words near pseudo-election in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-directory
  2. pseudo-discipline
  3. pseudo-disciplines
  4. pseudo-edge
  5. pseudo-edges
  6. pseudo-election
  7. pseudo-empathy
  8. pseudo-English
  9. pseudo-fascism
  10. pseudo-feeble-minded
  11. pseudo-feeble-mindedness

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