Meanings
plural democrazies
- countableuncountableA democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
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This is crucial if we recognise that the crux of the democratic stateform is the constitutional right of the people to influence and determine how they are governed; how their representatives are chosen, and how that process can be conducted at intervals without fraudulent interference with the right of the people, without turning democracy into democrazy; into a chaotic and unruly form of government.
1986, Arthur Nzeribe, Nigeria: The Turning Point, Fourth Dimension, →ISBN, page 12
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