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anocracy

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Etymology

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Apparently from an- +‎ -ocracy, representing German Akratie.

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Noun

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anocracy (countable and uncountable, plural anocracies)

  1. (politics) A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 374:
      As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.
    • 2022 January 13, HW Brands, “How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F Walter review – sounding the alarm”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:
      She notes that on the scale researchers in her field employ, the US in the last few years has slipped into the range of anocracy.
    • 2022 January 24, Barbara F. Walter, “Why should we worry that the U.S. could become an ‘anocracy’ again? Because of the threat of civil war.”, in The Washington Post‎[2], archived from the original on 26 January 2022:
      When a country moves into the anocracy zone, the risk of political violence reaches its peak; citizens feel uncertain about their government’s power and legitimacy. Compared with democracies, anocracies with more democratic than autocratic features are three times more likely to experience political instability or civil war.
    • 2023 June 16, “The Guardian view on Trump and political violence: more than words”, in The Guardian‎[3], archived from the original on 1 August 2023:
      Prof Barbara Walter notes in her book How Civil Wars Start that two conditions are key: ethnic factionalism and anocracy – when a country is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic.
  2. A government not lacking governmental power but absent of political domination.
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