Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of democraticness.
[…] it believes national democracy to be the standard of assessment for the democraticity of the European Union.
2014 November 3, Serge Champeau, Carlos Closa, Daniel Innerarity, Miguel Poiares Maduro, The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice After the Euro Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 1872 more examples
It is not that there is more or less democracy on a local or transnational level but that there are different criteria to assess democraticity depending on the institutional level at which we find ourselves.
2018, Daniel Innerarity, Democracy in Europe: A Political Philosophy of the EU, Springer, →ISBN, page 82In my view, “democraticity” and legitimacy are thus two analytically distinct properties, such that a regime or representative may be democratically legitimate (popularly endorsed if you will) even as they are not democratic per se.
2022, Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 87Synonyms: democraticness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of democraticness.
Origin
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