anocracy

noun /əˈnɒk.ɹə.si/

1. A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.

   countable, uncountable

   As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.

2. A government not lacking governmental power but absent of political domination.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

Apparently from an- + -ocracy, representing German Akratie.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry anocracy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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