democraticity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From democratic +‎ -ity.

Noun[edit]

democraticity (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of democraticness
    • 2014 November 3, Serge Champeau, Carlos Closa, Daniel Innerarity, Miguel Poiares Maduro, The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice After the Euro Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 187:
      [] it believes national democracy to be the standard of assessment for the democraticity of the European Union.
    • 2018, Daniel Innerarity, Democracy in Europe: A Political Philosophy of the EU, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:
      It is not that there is more or less democracy on a local or transnational level but that there are different criteria to assess democraticity depending on the institutional level at which we find ourselves.
    • 2022, Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 87:
      In my view, “democraticity” and legitimacy are thus two analytically distinct properties, such that a regime or representative may be democratically legitimate (popularly endorsed if you will) even as they are not democratic per se.

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