Meaning of anocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
   countable, uncountable
2. A government not lacking governmental power but absent of political domination.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“As the number⟳ of autocracies in the world began to decline⟳ in the late 1980s, the number⟳ of anocracies began to increase⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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