Meanings
comparative more politocratic · superlative most politocratic
- Pertaining to the role of citizens in the organization and choice of government.
The right thing to do faced with chronic annual trillion-dollar budget deficits and globally destabilizing sovereign debts is to pare the politocratic foreign-policy mission.
2013, Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills, Democracy and its Elected Enemies, page 1252 more examples
I argue that this is still the case, although the elections in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the rapid evolution in Poland of a modified multi-party system with organized oppositions may well create new forms of politocratic systems that go further on the road already traveled by Yugoslavia.
1990, Bogdan Denis Denitch, Limits and Possibilities, page 7In politocratic constitutionalism there is no single centralised sovereign locus of government, established in terms of the demands of the territorial state and for the sake of its intact maintenance and veneration.
2019, Koos Malan, There is no Supreme Constitution, page 267
Origin
- Ancient Greekπολιτικός
- Latinpoliticus
- Englishpolitocratic
From Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”) + -cratic.
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