Meaning of democratatorship | Babel Free

Definitions

A dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.

informal

Examples

“Aleph admits that Israel is trying to develop genuinely democratic institutions but, because of her compromises with ethnic religion, the new state can be described at best as a "democratura," or "democratatorship"!”

“Yet such men regarded parliamentary democracy as a sham 'democratatorship' (Demokratur), believed the multi-party system had to be abolished and wanted somehow to reunify the country with the assistance of like-minded fascists abroad.”

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