nondemocracy
- noun
- /nɒnˈdɛmɒkrəsi/
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nondemocracia
- In many nondemocracies, the government controls the media to suppress dissenting views.
Examples
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And yet Obama's engagement strategy pragmatically recognizes that addressing global problems such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and financial instability calls for meaningful cooperation, not only with democracies but also with nondemocracies.
Academic text (2010) -
Democracy means putting up with BS, because the BS nondemocracies have is worse.
Blog text (9) -
This handicap may render military governments less careful in war initiation. Rummel found that nondemocracies were more likely than democracies to fight severe wars.
Academic text (2000) -
Many human rights violations are reported in nondemocracies where citizens lack the freedom to speak out.
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People in nondemocracies often face restrictions on their ability to participate in elections.
Synonyms
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7.7
Religious leaders run a country and say they rule by God's will
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9.3
A government that controls nearly all parts of people's lives and takes away personal freedom
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A government where one person or group has all power and rules cruelly
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A government where one leader or a small group holds power and limits people's freedoms
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A government in which one person has all power
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A government run by another country that does what the other country wants and has little real power
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A country ruled by leaders who tightly control people's lives and freedoms
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A government run by the least able and most dishonest people
A government where one person has all power over the country and no limits
A government run by religious leaders like priests
Control of a government by a violent or disorderly mob
Antonyms
How Democratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nondemocracy starts with non- meaning 'not' and the rest is democracy, from Greek demos 'the people' and kratos 'rule'. So a nondemocracy is a country or system where the people do not have the rule and where elections are not free.