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prettygoodwordanocracy (?) - n., a political system that is partly democratic and partly autocratic, semi-democracy.
Also sometimes described as a guided rather than liberal democracy. So there's someone in settled power and opposition has some leverage but not enough to dislodge them -- Russia today is a (disputed) example. Often characterized as typically an unstable system. Coined in German in 1946 by Martin Buber from Ancient Greek (using the English versions) an-, not + -ocracy, government, and brought into English in a 1950 translation -- Buber claimed that what he was going for in the term was "not absence of government but absence of domination."
---L.
Also sometimes described as a guided rather than liberal democracy. So there's someone in settled power and opposition has some leverage but not enough to dislodge them -- Russia today is a (disputed) example. Often characterized as typically an unstable system. Coined in German in 1946 by Martin Buber from Ancient Greek (using the English versions) an-, not + -ocracy, government, and brought into English in a 1950 translation -- Buber claimed that what he was going for in the term was "not absence of government but absence of domination."
---L.
