anocratic

English

Adjective

anocratic (comparative more anocratic, superlative most anocratic)

1. (politics) Characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government.
   • 1980, Ted Robert Gurr, Handbook of political conflict: theory and research:

     Highly coherent polities have higher mean durability scores than incoherent and anocratic polities, both for the whole sample and for each subsample.

   • 1984, Mark Irving Lichbach, Regime Change and the Coherence of European Governments:

     To examine standardization of change in anocratic traits, the sequences of transformation in anocracy that European nations have followed over time are explored.

   • 2016, David C. Jordan, Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies, page 141:

     The rise of the populist leader who led the failed February 1992 coup against the Pérez government is a clear indication of the people's aversion to the anocratic order.

Usage notes

• Used especially to describe an autocratic regime that keeps itself in power despite the presence of a supposedly democratic system.

Related terms

• anocracy

Translations

characterized by a mixture of autocratic and democratic government

• Georgian: ანოკრატიული (anoḳraṭiuli)
• Portuguese: anocrático

Anagrams

• anacrotic