demoicracy

plural demoicracies

1. uncountableRule by multiple distinct people.

   The European demoicracy is predicated on the mutual recognition of the many European identities — not on their merger.

   2006, Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader, Longman, →ISBN

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   That our scholarly conceptualisations of the EU–as a community of law, as a demoicracy, as a post-national sui generis polity–are also in need of a radical rethink.

   2014, Nicole Scicluna, European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1

   Following this argument, any normative evaluation of democracy in the EU must start from the premise that it is an institution with many demoi and not a nation state, in other words a demoicracy. This argument is important and constructive, for it helps to establish the foundational differences between the EU and nation states.

   2015, Tove H. Malloy, Francesco Palermo, Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN