autocratisation

plural autocratisations

1. UKcountablenonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of autocratization.

   Five years later, when the institute published its first dataset of global democracy, its experts realised that things were rapidly going in the wrong direction. “Now, all of us researching democratisation have become researchers on autocratisation,” Lindberg says.

   2026 March 17, Martin Gelin, “‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026