Meaning & use
Anocracy
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A type of unstable political regime that combines features of both democracy and autocracy, typically weak and prone to conflict.
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Political scientists classified the fragile new government as an anocracy rather than a full democracy.
Research suggests anocracies are more prone to civil war than either strong democracies or strong autocracies.
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The term is central to the Polity data series used by political scientists to classify regime types worldwide.
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