demoicracy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek δῆμοι (dêmoi, “peoples”) +‎ -cracy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɔɪkɹəsi/

Noun

demoicracy (countable and uncountable, plural demoicracies)

1. (uncountable) Rule by multiple distinct people.
   • 2006, Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader, Longman, →ISBN:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

Further reading

• demoicracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mediocracy