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

Equivalents

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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