demoicracy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek δῆμοι (dêmoi, “peoples”) + -cracy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]demoicracy (countable and uncountable, plural demoicracies)
- (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
[edit]- demoicracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia